The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1849-05-23


died Of cholera, out of near one hundred that
were sick. The mortality on the Mameluke
was greater; she burying thirty-two persons.
seve1sl also died on the Sarah. The health
of New Orie2ns on the 9Th, the day the 1lli-
nois left. was by Nc meens bad, but business
was almost at Il stand till. The same may
be said of all the towns on the Lower Misis
sippi.
THE FRu1r.-On Saturday night there
was a north wind, sky overcast. at.
mosphere very dry. thermometer. in open
exposure in the neighborhood of louisville.
49, no hoar frost. None of the fruit was in
jured. On Sunday night the sky was clear,
dry wind, thermometer %, little or no hoar
frost. All of tho fruit that had set. peach
es, plumbs, and cherries, were frozen and
killed We suppose, too. that all the ap"
Piles in blossom were killed. One variety
Of apples, the jennet, is not yet in bloom,
and this Of course escaped, as it always does
This hardness Vegetation is a very val
liable quality ofthe Jennet. The Northern
Spy will also prove very valuable for the
same reason. 1t starts full as late as the
Jennet. Both of them are now but Just bud
ding out, being about three weeks behind
the other varieties.-[I.ou. Jour. II. y
Telegraph By somd.- We have just been
called upon by gentleman who has visited
our city for the purpose, as he tells US, of
testing an invention for conveying sound to
an almost unlimited distance, at the same
time retaining the articulation SO perfecIy,
that two men standing, one in Norwich and
the other in Boston, for instance, shall con-
verse with the same ease as if standing face
to face. The very idea strikes one as pre-
posterous; and yet the gentleman alluded to
seems very con6den: of its entire practical
bilitv. He states that he has the necessary
machinery now constructing in this city
and that, in few days, it will be compile
ted, and ready to be submitted to the test Of
experimentation Cour.
1NDN FIeHT.- Fiue hundred men killed.
"A gentleman who came down from the
Indian country few days since informs us
that runner came in just before he left and
reported that sanguinary battle has been
fought on the prairies between the Canaan
ches and an allied force of several other
tribes, led by Shawnee chief, and that af-
ter desperate fight, in which about 500
were slain, the Camanches fed, leaving the
field in possession of the victors.
w give LnlS dCCOuuL as we nave IL 'IOu
our informant. 1t may be a false report
but the gentleman who gave US the informa-
ton, states that the Indians had recently
made large purchases Of powder and lead
and it was feared by many that there would
be trouble among the Indians on the Plains.
Little Rock, AJAX, Chronicle Of the 4th.
h, : The papers say Gov. Slade is in Chicago
with eleven young ladies, who come with
prima facia evidence of their capability to
show the "young idea how to Shoots We
have seen it stated that the last lot of teach
ers he bro't out. are al married. A-I1L
Queen Victoria is deranged. She is Of.
hicted with erysipelas. She wears veil
to hide the blotches on her face. She is in
cessently haunted with the idea of losing her
crown-and hurried from place to place by
the feverish restlessness peculiar to the first
stage of bereditary lunacy. These facts we
gathered from an eminent gentleman lately
returned from England. They present a
melancholy picture Of the evils which here
ditary monarchies-with their frequent in
acknowledgements upon the children OF
royajblood. Victoria is one Of the most un.
happy women in the British Islands.
(Quaker City.
Accident to the Steamboat Louisiana.