Special Correspondence of the Piaayun. VUOill Til IB ARUlT OtF OKU. TaTI.Ott. Saltillo, Mexico, May 91, 1847. A short time after my lait letter doted, the t"wn waa thrown into a fever of excitement by the arrival at Gen. Wool's camp of two Metican officers front Sao Lull Potosi, charged, with des latches for General Taylor. They profeeeed to be xnotant of their contents, but to believe that they had come from the city ol Mexico, and con tained the intelligence thatanarmtatlcehad beea urnntcd, and that negotiations for peace were un der discussion between General Scott and Santa Anna. Extatic waa the joy of many who are ' n for the war," and pine for the day when they shall again rejoin their friends and families. The despatches were immediately forwarded to Vn. Taylor by Lieut. Franklin, and the Meat tan officers treated with the moat marked cour tly by our officers at this post. They profee- (I iienoiance of the character of the despatches, in.t believed that the above was their purport Singular to say, this idea was generally believed; lor myself, I have so little confidence in any- h:ng Mexican, that I believed it to be a paper f 1 1. in the Department of San Luis a remons nance against the advance of General Taylor, or 'mething of that character. Private letters received from San Luis by cit izens here, brought by the Mexican officers, an nounced that the inhabitants were in a state of excitement from the espected approach of our army from this quarter, which wat looked for by the 28th inst. The despatches arrived here on Tuesday, and w.ie immediately forwarded, and the protracted absence of the hearer, Lieut. Franklin, tended to excite the curiosity felt to be apprised of their contents. About I o'clock to-day he returned, and lo! the bubble hurst ! The important despatch was a communication from the Governor of San Lnis Pototi, announcing that he has heard of the in tended approach of the American army, and bcrging to inquire whether it was the intention of the commanding general to conduct the war according to the usages of eiviliz- l nation, or ac cording to the manner adopted by the Caman ches. What reply Gen. Taylor will mnke to a question and communication of so insulting a character I cannot 'y, but I am told his usually even temper was considerably ruffled uuon rea ding it, and he is said to have remarked that he should think the Mexicans had become pretty well acquainted with our manner of conducing war before this, if they have not it ia certainly not bis fault, for be has tried hard enough to ben! it into tbem. There is no doubt that we shall march upon San Luis at a very early period, as soon as a suf ficient number of troops arrive from below, and from San Luis to the city of Mexico. A com munication received from Gen. Scott by Gen. Taylor a few days ago, giving a brief account of the battle near Jalapa, directs Gen. T. to march at once, or as early as possible, from San Luis, where he expected the letter would reach him, to the city of Mexieo. So that Gen. Taylor will not probably remain any time at San Luis, unless he receives orders there, but leaving a garrison for the place, will proceed with the reiidue of his command to the city of Mexico The com-mand will probably never retrace its steps Ibis way, as there will be no occasion for it. I have, therefore a fair prospect of "revel line, in the halls 01' the Montezumaa,' as well at some other people, and if I live through the campaign and return via Vera Crux, I shall have seen quite ss much of the country as I care about. As soon as my health will permit my going to Monterey, I shall apprise you more in detail of the plan of operations, number of troops to be taken, and all other particulars likely to be interesting. A Mexican was stubbed in the back a few days aince in the plaza by a fellow countryman, and has since died. Col. Doniphan, with the residue of his command arrived at camp this morning and reported to General Wool. It ia thought that the aitillery companies unrter Captain Weightman, attached to this command, will consent to re main during the war, but I hardly think such will be the case. The regiment ia under orders to march on Sunday, the O.ld, for the Brazos, there to be discharged. The two Illinois Regiments will march from here on the 30th or 31st inst., and the Arkansas Cavalry on the 1st of June. Tbe t'vo Indiana Regiments, 3d and 3d, will pro ceed on Monday. The troops then of the old atock, will all begone except Ben McCullocb's company of Texan Rangers, now commanded by Lieut. Tobin, ami not a company will go on to San Luis, except the artillery batteries, that have been in any of the hard fights with Gen. Taylor. Well let us hope that the new regiments will stand up to their work quite at. well at the old, and, if ait opportunity occurs, distinguished themselves as their predecessors bavedone. We cannot doubt them. It is scarce ly probable that there will beany retittance at Nn Luit, yet the Mexican! may make stout one. An order hat jul been received from Gen. Wool, by the two Mtxican officers who brought the despatches from ban Luis, to report to him to-morrow moruing at 8 o'clock, for an answer to tbeir despatches. Trie Fkunso Vu-YOKY.Our, late opera lione in M xico have opened to us the fruit mar keta ot Jalapa. We observed severer varieties of melon, figs, and other Iruiu in our market, and at the fruil store, which being differeut in appearance from similar product of our soil, anj much more forward than such fiuitaare with us, we were led to inquire where they came from, and were anawend that they were from Vera Cruz. Large quantities are brought over by every ship. They find a ready tale h our market. The valley of Jala pa is famous fur ita delicious fruits. The pine apple pioJuced thcro ia the finest m dm world, and other of its fruits re fall equal lo Uiomj of Cuba. JV. O. Delta. Qvsi 40,000,000 pounds of sugar were made in tle Taited f tales during the year ItnawrtwMt fb-osa Uto CHr In trie city of Mexico everything ia manifest ly in state of contusion end almost unlicensed anarchy. Gen. Bravo haa resigned tint only his commend of general-in-rhief, but also hie com mission of general of division. Gen. Rincon in ssid to have done the same thing-. More of tbe causes in our next. It la true that Gen, Almonte is under arrest, though the causes of hit imprisonment are not avowed, tie ia confined in Santiago Tlalte lolco. . ' The death of Gen. Sco't was, for Beyers! days, reported in the city of Mexico, end generally credited. The error was discovored, however, prior to the latest dates. ' "' Gen. Ampudia has ben directed to await fur ther ordere at Cuernavace. What suspicions thing he haa done or contemplated we are not informed. Gen. Valencia and Gen. Sulas wer ordered to leave the city of Mexico on the 24th nit. for the city of San Luis Potosi, to take command of the army of the North. The accounts we find in the Mexican papers of the disaffection in Zscatcca confirm those we published a few days since. The official paper of the 8'ate publishes wrong representations made, against Santa Anna and in favor of the Americans Gen. Scott's manifesto among tlin latter. This latter document ia alo given in all the papers of the capital. Gen. Arista baa refused to rrassnme his mili tary functions until hie conduct should he in vestigeted by a military tribunal, lie demand that his trial may take place at once, in nrder that he may take part in the defence of the conn- ltr- From the N. O. Boo of the 1 1th inst. Blexleo. We 'have more than once had occasion to translate portions of the '.otters from the City of Mexico, written for the I'ntria.hy an intelligent and seemingly impartial and well informed cor respondent. In that oaper of yesterday, we find another communication dated the 2vM of May, parts of which are extremely interesting. The writer adverts in the strongest terms to the deplorable diHrder and confusion that prevail in the capiat. Mexico, says he, eeems in a more desperate state than rver. No one knows what is to be done, and those w ho hold the loins of what is called Government, neither know what tepe they should take, nor what they arc; them selves able to effect. We have at length an account of the circum- staneea attending the return of Santa Am. a to the Capital. It appears that on the 17ih, th- Republicans published a complete and trium phant vindication ofG- n. Minim, in which San- la Anna's conduct waa exhibited in a most odi ous light. The populace were furious against their lately idolized general, and when two days after, Santa Anna entered the city, h wa re. ceived by the rabble with indigent cries of "Death to Santa Anna;" "he sells us to the Yankees," and volleys of stones in all directions. The General in-chirf made his wny to the Na tional Palace with all convenient speed, and the guards were doubled to prevent more dangerous outbreaks. Thus far, observes the writer, the presa has been prevented from making public these outrsgea. The Capital ia nearly defencelees in pite ol Mexican fanfaronade, and, it i thought, that il Scott were to preKentehimaelf, he would enter without resistance from a population of nearly 2(10.000 soul. Almost all others than the mili tary are in favor ot peacp, and do not care to conceal their opinions. The soldier are (or war, not through patriotic motives, bu that lh- y may give full vent to their liccutiourneoa and rapacity. With respect o the Clergy, they have won derfully modified their views since the promul gation of Gen. Scott's proclamation. Percei vingthst tbe Americans pledpo themselves to refpect the Church property, and otserve iheir pledges, theClerey have determined nut to sur render their wealth for the benefit of the Re public, arguing that whi n they agreed to de spoil themselves before, they imagined that the Americana would strip them, and that therefore hey had better help their own countrymen. Now, however, that 'hey do not fear being mo lested, the Clergy keep their purae etringa tight ly drawn. The returns for the election of President had not, of course, been fully received at the date of the writer's letter. He in confident, however, that Ilerrera lias been chosen, and thinks that lie ia disposed to commence negotiations for peace. Gen. fc'cott will probably be in Mexico by the time the result of the election is ascer tained. Thb Ikdiania.ss at Rir Vista Surgeon Chamberlain, in a recent letter to the editor ol the Sunday Ne,' relates the lollnwing inci dent, as illustrative of the power and n fltience of Gon. Taylor over the tronjis under hie com mand. Doling thu retreat of t'ie ludianians, General Taylor, riding up to tho rear of the re tiring regiment, thus addreased them; 'Men eoldiers-lellow countrymen I fought for you and your country before you was born. I fought for. you when you wrre boys. I have fought lor yon since you were men. Now I want you to fijjlil a little w hile for me. Will you do it V Huzza for olJ Zck ! Turnout! To the death for old Ztck !" whs ehoutcd by more than to hundred or the gallant fellows, (for such they eubsequenily proved themselves,) who tin mediately rallied under an officer, and fought bravely during the rbt 0f lniJ engagement dncinnatti Signet. THE AMERICAN. Saturday, June JO, H47. ? Democratic. Nomlnallons.' ton oovurtNoa, Fit A NC IS It. SHU XII, FOR CANAL COMMISMOfttB, MORRIS LONGSTRETH, Of Montgomery County. Whig Nominations. For Governor, Gkn. JAMES 1RVIN. For Canal Commissioner, JOSEPH W. PATTON. (Ej- Printing Ink A fresh supply of tuperior printing ink just received, and for tale at Phila delphia prices. - 1X7 Til a CoaMrn Stows of thenewGerman Re formed Church will be laid on Sunday next, in thia place. The workmen are butily engaged in the erection of the building. C3T" Gkn. Taylor a Cawdibaib roa in Prx ainxmef. There can be no longer any doubt bat that Gen Taylor, in all human probability, will be our next President. The only quettion here tofore haa been, whether be woald tnfTt'1 himtelf to become a candidate for that high office. This it tin longer a matter of doubt, it it new a "fined fai l" that he will be a candidate, and hi election it a necessary conieqnence, at 'every body seems to be in his favor. We taw, a few daya since, a letter from Col. Jeffrrsnn Davis, the ton in law of Gen. Taylor, and the gallant soldier who led the Mistisaippi regiment at liuena Vista, on this uliji'ct. The letter it dated at Monterey and ad dietsed to a distinguithi d lYuns) Ivanian, offish standing in the democratic party, t'ol. lavn state that (i.en Taylor bad no desire to become candidate for the Presidency, but a a large portion of his friemli were putting l.im forward for that ttation, he did not think it proper to re sitt their withe, but that he will not accept the nomination ofany party or. convention ; that he was no politician, and if elected he inott be elected at tbe randidate of the people, whose in terest! and the iiiterettt of bit country alone, would be kit rule of conduct. The Colonel fur ther ttatet that Gen. Taylor hatalwayt been the warm friend of Gen. Jacktou, and alto of Thomat Jefferton. Ilia views en the tariff are in accor dance with our own. The whole tenor of the letter is such, ss would be highly tstisfactory to every liberal minded democrat. And judging from his firmnett ; hit intelligence end integrity; his republicsn simplicity and bis coolness in the hour danger, be would best siiccettful in the cab met as be has al ways been in '.be field, and that too, often under circumstances of the most trying na ture, and which could only have been surmount ed by a degree of heroism and moral courage that seldom fade to the lot of man. C7" The Primm-iht left Washington on Toes dsy last , on a visit to the cities of Baltimore Philadelphia, New York, and Eotton. From the preparations that have been made in the differ ent cities, he wil meet with a warm reception by the people, without distinction of party. fl? Death or Ma. 0'CoNr.i.t. The arrival of the Cambria, lt week, brought the new t of .he death of Daniel O'Connell, the Irthh Libera tor. He died at Genoa, on the 1.1th all., having went to Daly for the benefit of bis malady. Tbe news of this great man's death was not unex (H'ted, aa previous arrivals brought the intelli genre of tbe decline of bit beslth. His remains were to be buried in Irrtand, but bis heart was to be deposited at Rome. fGT Peace. There appears to be as much diversity of opinion in regard lo the protpectt o peace at ever. 1 he views of letter writers in Mexico and those at Washington are widely dif. ferent. Mr. Kendall, the correspondent of the Picayune, who is well acquainted w ith tbe Mexi can chaiacter and the feeling! of lbs people of that country upon the war, says, in one of bi last letters, that "he wbo thinks tbst a lasting and beneficial peace can ba mads with Mexico or believei that the American troops at soon to be withdrawn, is some one who bss not been over the country he starts in his belief from false premises, and judges a race of people by ths or dinary rules which govern human nature, while it is notoriously a fact that they have long sine thrown sll ordinary rules st defiance." "Ohterver," the Washington correspondent ol the Ledger, it will be seen by the following ex tract, looks upon the subject in a different light altogether ; 'I bave no meant of judging of the viewt and purposes of the adininittiation, other than many in common w ith himtelf : but Mill venture on etpretsing my belief that the war will not latt three niouibs longer, and that the hardest fight nig, and in fact all the fighting of any ronse quence is over We n ty not have an actual frca ty signed three iponths hence, but pruct we shall certainly have, and perhapt tome kind of convention, which may even give it the form of a law." Pt.lKtYLVANJA FOR HIS FuLU. Cspt R B Marcy, of the f. Ah ii.fauliy, itcuiveJ, in Harris burg, in eleven months, three hundred and fort of at fine troops, the Ilarritburg Union tayt ever entered the army all healthy, ttout, and well behaved young men. All entered the ter vice ol their own fiee will, without any iiopiop er inducements being held out to them, sod all enlisted when they were perfectly sober snd fiee from tht influence of intoxicating liquois. Later from Tar Oral, ... The Vomito lncrta$inr-1tlatfe ot a Large TVan by GuerriUaeThirty American Killed. " Specie Carried off Forty Wsgona Destroyed Two Hundred Mules Csptnred Reinforce ments Sent For Gen. Csdwalder in the Field -Communication with General Scott Cut Off. The New Orleans Picayune of the 17th, con taining later dates from Vera Crux, brought by the arrival of the U. S steamship Massachusetts, Cspt Wood. The Massachusetts brings over 155 sick and wounded soldiers, under chsrge of Dr. Tudor. The vnmito is represented as on the increase at Vera Cruz. Quite the most Important intelligence brought by this arrival relates to an attack upon a large train by the Mexican Guerrillas, which hat been psrtitlly successful. By tht Fanny we learned that a train was to leave Vera Crux on the morn ning of the SlU iiiit. for Puebla, under the com mand of Lieut. Colonel Mackintosh. The train bad in charge (225,000 iu specie, of which sum 1 100.000 belonged to the Paymattei't depait ment, and the remainder to the Quartermaster One hundred and twenty five wagons and six hun dred psck mules were in the train, which was escorted by 800 troops. The train left Vera Cruz on the night of the 4th inst , and on Sunday, the Cth, when it bad advanced about 25 miles it was attacked by a targe party of Guerillas. The ph.ee was well selected for the purpose by the Mexicans, being represented as a defile broad enough for a single wagon only. It is ssid too that slight works bad been thrown np by the Mexicans to obstruct our advance. The attack wat made upon each extremist of he train and upon the centre at the same time, he principal point, however, being the wagont which were tnpposed to contain the specie. The Hack was so far successful that forty of our wagons were destroyed. Those containing the specie and two hundred mules loaded with subsistence were taken and thirty of our men killed. No later dates from the train bad been received. On the morning of the llth, the day the Mas- acbusetts left, no later news had been received from the army of Gen. Scott. The reason of thia s however obvious, for the pretent at least, as the coin mimical ion has been entirely cut off- We do not regard tint as at all alarming, (or Gen Cadwatader will open a passage to Jalapa at once. OoMVirTtoN or Mi until Martin Shay, who was tried laC week, at Potttville, charged with murdering John Reese, in that borough, iu Ue cember last, has been found guilty of murder in be first degree. The jury retired at 8 o'clock, on Thursday evening, and brought in their ver dict at half past eleven. When the verdict was rendered tne sister of the unfortunate man gave aheait piercing shiiek, and fainted away. The prisoner was much more composed then was an ticipated. Application has been made for a new trial. The T'nitko States Gazkitx, under the con trol of J. R. Chandler, F.q. for the last forty years, one of the most valuable establishments in the Stste, has been purchased by G. R. Gra ham & Co , of the A'srA American, for the sum of 47,000 dollars. Mr. Cbsndler will retire from tbe press with the good withet, and high opinion ofwhigtand democrats. Im.akd Tradx The number of boata tow ed to Phllsdelphis, since the opening of the Tidew ater Canal to Juno 1st, waa 1045, and to Baltimore 201 boats. Coi.. Wrstoor. Col. Wynkoop, of the first Pennsylvania regiment, bas been appointed Go vernor of Perot, by Gun. Scott, and Lieut. Kar cher of the tame regiment, has been appointed postmaster of that place. So ssys tbe Potttville Emporium. Gen. Paiterson has been tendered Pablic Dinner by the citizens of Harrisburg without dis tinction of party, aa a mark of respect for the highly valuable services he bas rendered bis country in the war with Mexico, A dinner it is said, is to be given by the citi zens of Washington to Col. May, the brave dra goon, to which Mr. Secretary Marcy it to ba in vited. Th ForaTu or Jult The Common Coun cil of New York bav appropriated $1500 to celebiat tbe Nation't birthday. Tbe celebra tion by the city draws strangers enough into thut place to more than pay tbe expense. Pom-ask Stamm. The Wsshington Union says that the Postmsster General bas made ar rangements by which he will be enabled, about the 1st of July, to furnish the large offices in tbe Union with postage stamps. They may tben be procured in any number by persons desirous of prepaying tbeir correspondence. To such they will doubtless prove a crest convenience, as a letter witb one of these ttamps on it may be de pouted in tbe office al any hour, dty or night, in the tame manner at lettert on w hich the pottage it not pre paid. Farmer! have commenced rutting their grain in teveial partt of Virginia The harvett will be more than an average. The quality of the wheat it laid to be very tuperior. The grain ia ripening fast in the vicinity of Fredericksburg and along the Rappahannock. Preparations are making to commence harvetting in all quartert. Memorasbi'm by n Isteli igent Gentleman rtiou Mai mek City, Ouio On the boaders of Lake Michigan, theieare now iu store, ready for trai.iporttt on, a million of biiibeUofbreadttuffa It is ettiinsted that the meant of trsnspoitatiun will not clear out the old ttock before the new comet in. Tbe crops in t 'tno Did itir lor a tun average. Wheat in Wiiconsin Not witbttanding tbe bigh price of wheat in the Atlantic cities, it is selling for thirty-seven and a half rents tLs bu sbtl in Wisconsin, at tha pretent time. Thai's tha country for bread caters to go to. .Ma. WiiiTnsy, tbe projector of the railroad to the Pacific Ocean, rsce'ntly gave a lecture before tbe membera of the Legislature of Maine, in fa yor of his scheme, and the Legislature passed resolutions approving it and expretting a hope that Congrett would accede to Mr. Whitney's demand, which is to grsnt to him the Isnd lor thirty miles on each side of the contemplated road, the whole distance. Last week, Mr. Whit ney repeated hia lectures before tba New Htm p. shirs Legislsture. The Senate passed resolutions spproving the scheme, timilsr to those passed by tbe Legislature of Maine. When these resolu tions csme up for sction In the House, General Wilson spoke against them. He was acquainted with much of the territory thiough which this rosd would pass, if it was ever made, and he said to grant to a company a tract of land aixty miles in width, extending from the Lakes to the Psci fic Ocean, would be to create one of tbe most powerful monopolies that ever existed ! . His speech bad a powerful efT- tt ; for when he sat down the question was taken, and the resolutions were laid on the table by a unanimous vote. The Pbodvck or thi West. Some idea of the cost of getting the produce of the West to mar ket may be formed from the copy of an account of the aalea of 13 580 bbls. of flour by a com mission house in Boston, received fiom . St. Jo seph, Michigan, and which it published iu Hunt's Merehsnts' Maeazine. The floor told for S90,- 657 21. The charget upon the same, including $4,115 31 on the St Joseph river, amounted to $31,007 17, neatly half of the nett proccedt The charget occurred on last season's freights, and would have been nearly or quite a third more this spring. The value of the producta received at New Orleans from the interior, in the course of the ingle year of lSl.T, ia set down at oxer fifty te rm million of ilnllnr : and thia too, during a year peculiarly unfavorable, by reason of the low stsge ot the river. The number of steam bo.it arrivals at New Orleans during that rame year, was 'J.&iO, and their united tonnage wat estimated to have been f52 500 Ions. An a mount of steamboat tonnage greater than that of the whole ol Great Rritain. The whole steam boat tonnage employed on tho Mississippi in 1P45, was over iree and a ijnaiter million of ton, while the whole foreign tnnnige of the United States was only 4 ".) 403 tuna. The very expense of running these boats i(. estima ted at nearly eighteen millions ot dollars a year. The Cleveland Plain Dealer says that a sin gle merchant of that city paid the turn of .?'. X), 000 for Wheat and Flour, between the 17th and 77th ult., being an average of $30, IKK) a dsy. Ma. A3T0R hat, in hit will, left nearly a half million of dollars for the establishment of a free library in Philadelphia. He made this legacy, the Mail ssys, not expecting, from his great age, to survive long. Gen. R. Jones, Adjutant General of the U. S. Army, bas informed Brig. Gen. Brooke, Com'g Western Division of the Army, at New Orleans, that the sum of $500,000 appropriated by Con gress for the comfort of discharged soldiers, who may be landed at New Orleans or other plsces within the United States, so disabled by disease or by wounds received in the service, at to be unable to proceed to their homes, is now avail able. The letter stating this fact instructed Gen. II. to draw on tbe Quartermaster at New Orleans for any funds that be might think necessary, to be placed in the hands of the persons authorized by the Act of Congress to receive and distribute it. Gen. Tatlob'b Command now contiiti of the 2d Mississippi, tbe Massachusetts, the Virginia and (he North Carolina Regiments of Volunteers, the Texas Cavalry, tbe 101b and 10th Regiments Regular Infantry, detachment of the 3d and 3d Dragoons, witb the .batteries of Wathir.gtoo, Bragg and O'Brien. X O. Picayune. Gen. Taylor and Com. Perry. The brevity of tbe despatch which Com. Perry sent to Gen. Hsrrison, after tbe battle of Lake Erie, in the words "We bave met the enemy, and they are ours," elicited geaeral remark and admiration; but ne less laconic waa the following postscript contained in one of Gen. Taylor's letters to a friend, after tbe battle of Buena Vista "Santa Anna, with twenty thousand men, bas given us battle, and w have maintained our position." Baaoe'a Battesy. It it stated tbat each gun of Bragg'a Battery, at Buena Vista, was discbar ged upwaids of two hundred and fifty times du ring the battle! The Vomito The Vomito ia spreading at Vera Cruz. A letter from tbat place ssys: The yellow fever, el vomito, as it should be calWd, is now getting really serious among us Thirteen cases terminated fatally yeiterday, and to day, already. I have heard of tbe death of three individuals whom I personally knew. Colonel Kearney, the Government contractor, is now ly ing in a very dangerous state, and people are thus falling around me. Such things, to an un acclimated man, like myself, are calculated to make on feel ugly. Not far from $5,000,000 are yearly earned in Massachusetts, by females employed io tba va rious factories sod manufactories of straw hata, stocks, &c. About 40,000 Icmalcs ara thus an Dually employed. A slave when being flogged at Holly Spring Tenn., lately, by a young man named Carpenter turned suddenly upon him and literally chopped him to pieces witb an axe. Tba tonnage of tba United States on tba 301 h J Of September last amounted, to 1,052,014. . Hasbino ar a Son for Tna Murder or mis Mother William H. Stepter, a young man !7 yearrof age, was executed in Greensburg, Ken tucky, on the Cth inst., for tba murder of bis mo ther. Nearly five thousand parsons assembled to witness the doting acena. The act for which he baa suffered waa committed some weskt since at every one thought, by the boy's father. He wat arrested, and would unqueitionably bave been hanged, if hit ton, to whom no autpicion whatever attached, had not vcluntarily come forward and released hit father by declaring that lie alone was the guilty person. The son, w as accordingly convicted on bis own confession. He had always previously borne the character of an Inoffensive boy. He was of a very Weak mind occasionally insane, it is aaid. Gra. Taylor and Internal Icfrovkmenti The Common Council of Detroit, at one of itt late meetingt, pasted a resolution to appoint a committee to ascertain the opinions of Gen.Tsy lur on the subject of lake, harbor and river im provements. Sgkvrii him Riomt. Doing without a news paper, in order to save ita subscription price, ii fa I ne economy, aa the experience of some one every dsy show. A farmer in New York re cently sold hia crop of corn considerably below market price by which operation he lost the anug aum of $100. He waa to poor to take a paper, and consequently was easily imposed upon. Who pities him 1 A FaitiivI'L Mf.sjskwoer. Mr Sol. Hayes, who ia in the service of Messrs. Livingston Sc. Wells, Exprcsa forwarders, has travelled on railroad and river since 1929, without accident, Wi 500 miles ! lie his never missed a trip, and has carried safely for hia employers, at a moderate calculation, during those IS years of service, f millions of dollars, without the loss of a single cent. The Springfield Gazette tells the following story, it may be possibly true, but it is certainly a most extraordinary coincidence ; A man waa sentenced to the House ol Cor rection, by Judge WeiU, on Thursday, lor stea ling a watch from the alore of Jonathan linitf. The same man was sent to the State Prison lt years ago, for stealing the same watch from the panic man in the same store belonging to the eatne man. How TO Travel oeT West. Cost of travel from Boiton to New Orleant by a recent travel er; Rottonto New York, time 12 hours, $4 4 4 9 8 15 .1 New York to Philadelphia, 6 hours . Philadelphia to Harriiburg, 8 hours, Harritburg to Pittsburg, (canal) 3 days, Pittsburg to Cincinnatti, (by steam) 24 days Cincinnati to New Orleans, 7 to 9 days, Add to this about $3 for package, &c , From Boston to New Orlesns, only $n Ten yeart ago one could not reach New Or leant under $100. The Extraordinary Fact ol a black woman turning white has recently occurred at Cairo. The woman is married to a black soldier belong ing to Ibrahim Pasha's guard, and, according to the evidence brought forward, it ia during the last two years that her black skin peeled of) ly degrees and without any inconvenience to her self, and hae been replaced by a white skin. Her features distinctly belong to the Ethiopian race, and her flat nose, thick projecting lips, woolly hair, peculiar cheek bone, accent, and the shape of her feet, all denote) her origin. Five Euro peso medical men at Cairo have cer tified to the above facts. A Rip Vaji Winkle Tha Railroad Depot at Auburn ia situated, as everybody knows, ve ry near the State Prison. A few daya aince, while the cara were making Iheir usual atop of twenty minutes, a ptaaenger Iron) the city strolled near the gate of the prison yard. It waa the grey of the morning, and just then it happened that a prisoner, wbo many years be fore bad entered that gloomy portal, was libera ted. The poets and wirea of the telegraph in stantly fixed bis attention. After some mo menta of puzzled contemplation, he ventured to ask the gentleman above mentioned what they were. It waa not easy, ol course, to explain at once to one so wholly ignorant, the nature and uses of this great wonder of the age; but brief statement waa given to the astonished in quirer. When, however, he waa told that ha might send a mesas ge by these wiree to New York and reeeive an answer all in the courae of a few minutes, he expr- t?ed Li total incre dulity, and went away indignant that alter so long a confinement the first man he met ahouM attempt to dupe Lira by a tale to utterly incred ible. Roch. Am. IIaitiiinu Fish Hatching egga by artifi cial heat i well known atid extensively practi sed in China, as ia also the batching of fish. The sale of spawn for thi; purpose forms an im portant brancb of trade in China. The fisher men collect with care, on the margin and sur face of the water, all the gilatinuotis manors that contain spawn fish, which ia then placed in an egg shell, which haa been fresh emptied through a finall hole, which ia then sloped, and the shell ia then placed under a settling fowl. In a lew days the Chinese break the shell in warm water; (wanned by tho sun) Tlio young jlth are then kept in water u.itil they are large enough to be placed in a pond. Thia plan in some measure couuteraeta the great de struction of spnwn by troll netn, which bavecsu eed the extinction of many fisheries. Martin't China. v
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