The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1855-05-10

In this neighborhood, Mr.. Schenck found that all
had persisted. But Mr.. Champion is of the opin-
ion that it is not the severe winter that kills the
trees, but premature autumnal frosts, and he
presents facts in proof Of this opinion. "Forty
years ago." he says, "peach trees generally
lived to the age of twenty, and some of them
thirty years, in full bearing, healthy and vigor-
Gus. But the trees now taken from the nurse
ries in the Northern and Middle States seldom
bear more than three or four crops, and some
of them not more than one, while others never
bear any," Mr.. Champion promises to indicate
hereafter the means by which this fruit may be
restored to its original size, flavor, and quantity
and the trees made to live and bear fruit for
twenty years and upwards.
There were received at New York on Friday,
May 3, over the Erie railroad and down the
Hudson river, 6,2ll barrels of -four, 6,625
bushels of oats, 720 packages of butter, and 800
packages of cheese. The arrivals of butter are
large, and there is a material reduction in price
Mr.. Booth, of the Milwaukee Free Democrat
in noticing the Imprisonment of a young man
for theft says that he was one of the persons
most active in inducing the prosecution of him
| for aiding the escape of the fugitive, Glover
M. Thompson, Esq, of Washington city,
has made most valuable abstract of the laws
of the District of Columbia, which is for sale at
Morrison's, Pennsylvania avenue.
The Limerick Chronicle, (Ireland,) of April
81, states that on the preceding day the ship
Jessie, with ffty-six passengers, had left for
Montreal that she is capable Of accommoda-
ting five hundred, but that the Know Nothing
faction in America has deferred many from
leaving for America.
1t is stated that the patent for Singer & Co. s
single thread and embroidering machine has
been sold in France for 500, 900 francs, or near
ly 100000.
The Pacific RAILRoAD.-Hon. T. Butler
King, Yankee, who has cast his fortunes among
the slave-owners Of the South, publishes letter
in which he says, that "the Southern States
possess the only practicable line for a railroad
to the Pacific and that their institutions aciH
proceed, pari passu, aoh its construction to that
ocean,"
Again he says:
"Our slave population, therefore, affords the
only description of labor which can be availed
of with safety and certainly for the accomplish
ment of this great work. This description of
labor is already protected by the institutions of
TeraS, through which eight hundred and fifty
miles of the line will run; and also an the terri
tory acquired Under tie Gadsden treaty, which
is now annexed to New Mexico, that Territory
being authorized, in the law organizing its Gov
ornment, to come into the Union as n State
with or without Slavery, as the people shall de-
termne. The distance from FL Paso on the
western line of Texas to the river Colorado,
the eastern line of California, is about four hun,
dred and fifty miles. Thus we perceive that
for the whole distance of this line, until we
strike California, slave labor may be employed
with perfect security, and it is believed that her
Fugitioe Stare Law and the .tdroraJle DISPOSE
ton Of the people aOiH be sufficient protection to
1t acithia the tinlHs Of that State"
NAUTICAL SCHooL.-A bill for the establish
ment of nautical school has been reported to
the Massachusetts Legislature. 1t appropriates
$4,000 for the establishment and equipment
of a school, provided $4,000 be raised by SUBJ
scription or otherwise, for the purchase of
ship to be used as a school. The ship is to be
stationed in some one of the harbors of the
State, and sent to sea under the direction of the
trustees Of whom there are to be three. The
school is to be composed of boys, over twelve
years of age, to be taken from the alms.house
or State reform schools; and others are to be
received, whose towns or guardians will be re-
sponsible for the actual cost of their support
A CLERGYMAN KILLED.-The Rev. Charles II.
Halsey, rector of Christ Church in New York,
while on a visit to a new building adjoining the
Everett House, in that city, on Wednesday,
May I'd, accidentally fell from the fourth story,
through opening, to the ground, distance
of sixty feet. He never spoke after the fall,
and died in half hour. He was son-in-law
of President King, of Columbia College.
Over 10000 copies of Barnums Autobiogra-
ply have been sold in England without the
slightest pecuniary advantage TO the author.
Mr.. Wikof7s account of his courtship and its
consequences has been republished in London,
and the author is mentioned by one of the crit
les, as "a New York journalist, who had piled
venal pen in behalf of England at the bidding,
and under the pay, of the Foreign Office in
London" The London Weekly Chronicle,
speaking of reprinted American literature, de-
scribes Fanny Fern as "a dreadful person. a
species of idiotic Mrs. Trollope possessing all
that lady's want of refinement, but without an
atom of her wit."-Erchdnge
When DIR. J. Z. Snodgrass, the Vice Presi-
dent of the American Settlement Company of
this city, was about to deliver his lecture upon
Kansas and the Emigrant Aid Movement at
Auburn, on Monday, he received the painful
intelligence of the death of member Of his
family, which has interrupted his New York tour
This is to be regretted, for the papers indicate
that his addresses have been well received.
CoyQUERISG PIECE The latest intelli
gence from "The Plains" states that, on the
18th ult two companies Of United States
troops, under Colonel Fauntleroy, met ninety
Utah and Apache Indians, armed and mounted,
in Chowatch Pass, when battle ensued. Five
Utahs were killed, and two dangerously wound
ed. On the next day, moro Apaches were fallen
in with, when six were killed, and some prison
ers were taken. The command then returned
to Fort Massachusetts,, and expected to go to
Grand River.
On the 22d, Kit Carson, Lieut. Magruder,
and Captain Williams's company, while leaving
Punche Pass, saw party of Utahs, and killed
one and wounded another. This command
would recruit fifteen days at Fort Massachu-
sets, and then proceed on a second expedition
against the Utahs.
General Garland left Santa Fe on the 4th for
Albuquerque where he will expedite the move
ments In the held.
AS revenge is an Indian virtue, conquering
piece by killing Indians in detail is like argu-
ing in circle; there is no stopping-place near
satisfactory conclusion than the very first stop
itself.