The Express.
London, England, 1851-08-28 00:00:00

UNITED STATES.

The reports from the various grain-growing parts
of the Union indicate that the wheat crop of the
present year will be the heaviest ever taken from the
earth in the Western States. In Ohio, the crop is a
very large and fine one. In New York, Indiana,
Michigan, and Wisconsin, the yield is also very large, •
and the wheat of the very best quality. In Michi-
gan, particularly, the yield exceeds anything ever
known even in Michigan. lowa appears to be an
exception. There the wheat crop is nearly a failure.
The winter wheat was badly blighted and rusted,
and the spring wheat is blighted also in a great mea-
sure. The corn looks very poorlv,but hopes are en-
tertained that it will yet turn out well. The oat
crop is very abundant. The potatoes are ruined by

the- rot. -
A committee of gentlemen of Louisiana and Missis-
sippi, appointed fin. the purpose, have issued a cir-
cular, in which they propose a convention of dele-
gates from the states of Texas, Missis44)o, Alabama,
Arkansas, Tennessee, Kentucky, Missouri, Indiana,
Illinois, and Ohio, to unite with the people of Louisi-
ana and of New Orleans, to deliberate upon and con-
cert such measures as will be likely speedily to in-
fluence the construction of a system of railroads con-
necting the Gulf States with those of the west and
the north-west, and radiating throughout all the
interior. They also invite delegates from others of
the southern states, in order more fully to understand
the systems of workl projected or being cArried out by
them, and to co-operate in the construction of any
which may. have an interest joint and common
to all. It is proposed that this Convention hull
be held on the first Monday in January next, at New
Orleans.
A terrific thunder and hail storm had swept over
a part of Connecticut and Massachussets, doing a
great deal of damage to buildings, crops, fences, &c.,
and in some instances destroying life. At Windsor,
Connecticut, a brick house was prostrated, and a
woman buried in the ruins. Scores of beautiful elms,
which had braved the storms of inure than a cen-
tury, were prostrated. The tobacco crop tt that
vicinity was almost totally ruined. The forte of the
wind that accompanied the hail may be judged of
from the fact that, in one instance, a load of hay was
lifted up and handsomely capsized. At Springfield
the storm was very severe, and one man was killed
by lightning.
Our correspondent writes :

NEW YORK, tilto. 15.

By the arrival of the Prometheus, we leaf u that passen-
gand gold dust are actually beginning to cross by the
Nicaragua route. The billowing extract Lila letter gives uu
interesting picture of the route, and au idea of the facilities
for tniversing it :
It was my good fortune to he a passenger in the
Nicaragua Company's steamer Pacific, which left San
Francisco on the evening of the 14th ult., with
a strong wind from the north-west, with 425 ;lessen-
gi n. After a pleasant voyage of fourteen slays, we made
San Juan del Sod on the Pacific. This is a very
beautiful harbour, where a ship can he well sheltered
from all winds, and the climate, is perfectly delicious. The
passengers were all landed by the ship's boats on terra
firma. The flag of our country fluted front the mountain
peak in honour of the first steamship that had ever walked
the waters of San Juan of the South. We immediately
proceeded with mules over a picturesque country of forests,
hills, and the murmuring of "soft waters," followed by a
clear, beautiful champaffin country. After a ride of Ii
' miles, we reached the memorable and dilapidated city
of Rivas' situated on Lake Nicaragua. This is really is
beautiful sheet of water, with two large mountains rising
from the centre. At Rivas we were detained three days and
four hours, waiting fur baggage, de., but all this delay will
of course be obviated by the next trip, as the Cu tttttt °dere
will have everything in locomotive order. From this
city we embarked on board the steamer Director, and
ran down the lake to Fort San Carlos, thence to the
Rapids of Castille, a distance of 101 miles, where we em-
barked on board the new iron steamer, Sir 11. L. Bulwer,
and proceeded at a rapid rate down the San Juan river.
The air was serene, the river placid, and the banks studded
with trees clothed in " perpetual green." We arrived at
San Juan, on the Atlantic, in 30 hours' running time from
the Pacific to the Atlantic, all well. At this point we em-
barked on board the steamoiltip Prometheus. I must not
omit to inform you that Commodore Vanderbilt was with
his passengers on the overland route, and did all that could
be wished to expedite matters. lam convinced that the
route host New York to sau Francisco by " this travel"
GUI and will be made by the next trip in, at the further-
most, 23 days, through a beautiful country, perfectly healthy,
the inhabitants kind, attentive, and obliging."
It is quite difficult to determine which route will yet be
the favourite one. If the San Juan can be navigated by
thi se new iron steamers, it will be a great point gained.
The rumour put afloat, that the Nicaraguan government
hail revoked its grant to the American company, is
denied on the best authority.
Mr. Letchcr, our minister to Mexico, has returned in the
Bennie, and is instructed by our government to enforce the
Tehuantepec arrangement.
A New Orleans correspondent of the Baltimore Patriot,
writing thence on the sth, gives the following additional
particulars concerning the plans and movements of Gen.
Lopez and the Pamper() :
"The steam-ship Pamper°, the fastest thing on the water,
left here on !stolidity morning with GOO men, and takes in
tow is schooner loaded with arms and ammunition. This
much is certain. Now what follows is rumour, but is gene-
rally credited as fact. The steamer Pampero is in search of
the Spanish steamer Pizarro, which she hopes to meet and
capture, and transfer her own men to her. Then the
Panipero is to run into some Texan port for another lot of
men to carry to the island. A steamer left here on Thurs-
day lust fur Vera Cruz, but she is said to be destined for
Cuba with 300 men. The steamer Chingarora is missing
from the Lake, and is said to have taken a full load of men
and ammunition in Mobile Bay. The steamer Alabama is
engaged to take .500 men on Saturday next. Two schooners
are said to have left Pentacola with ammunition and men.
The steamer Monmouth is to take a party from Florida.
In fact, there is nu doubt that a large party, say 3,500 men,
are now either on their way or ready to embark ; and the
moment it is known that a good landing has been effected,
there will be 10,000 men ready to leave on the expedition."
Captain Brown, of the bark Lowber, arrived from St.
Thomas, on the western coast of Africa, informs as that
in the month of April last the British brig Englishman,
Captain Harris, bound from Bristol, was capsized during a
tornado off the island of Fernando Po, in the Bight of
Biafra, about 20 miles from the main land. It was reported
that she had 30 persons on board, all of whom perished,
with the exception of a native African, probably one of the
crew. who was picked up three days after the catastrophe
occurred, floating on a spar. The vessel by which this man
was rescued was a British ship from Carnarvon for Fer-
nando l's. Among the passeupers lost was the Rev.
W. Simpson and his wife, connected with the Presby-
terian Board of Missions, of this city, and the wife of the
captain. The names of the others lost are not given in the
account of our informant.

EGYPT.