Nebraska advertiser., 1856-06-21
Aeps Stems.

Senate committee on patents, renews
no patents that have ben in existence
twenty years, The Colt, Woodworth,
Goodyear and Haywood patents will
be excluded. OF course the bill viii
meet with great opposition.
A Davenport Qow@ paper states
that some of the women of the English
Mormon colony, who passed through
that place the other day en- route for
2 Salt Lake, deeply repented Of their
rash step, and would gladly 60 back
to their deserted homes.
..Iranistan, . the late prihcely resid-
: ence Of Barnum, together with the
balance of his real estate in Bridge
port, Il about to be sold under the
hammer. How are the mighty fallen!
Santa Anna, the. ex-DictatOr Of
Mexico, is living in great style at Ia
baco, four miles from Carthagena, in
New Granada, South America. He is
said tobe worth four million dollars.
Grasshoppers are destroying the
Vegetation about Austin and Seguin
and various other parts of Texas,
especially in Tarranb county, in the
Northern part Of the State.
The Rochester On. W Democrat
says "Frnit growers in this region
represent that we are tohaye a better
Weld of peaches; of all varieties, than
two years ago, when the crop was very
large andsuperier.". A Is.ae'
Mr.. Paul Kinsby, residing in Herri-
son county, Kentucky, on waking one
morning last week, found that his stock
O. hadincreased duringthe night eighteen
mule colts, six calves and six negro
children, the total value Of which is
about 2,400 dollars,
On board the ship Webster, which
arrived at New York on Sunday even
ing, six persons were lying i'll of small
pox. One person had died of the
disease ON the passage. She had seven
hundredpassengers aboard, from Liver
peol.
~ The Massachusetts, Legislature has
already been in session one hundred
and forty-two days. Its expenses are
about 1 300 dollars day, and it is ex-
pected to cost before adjournment,
nearly 100000 dollars. Legislation
is an expensive institution.
The Pittsburg Dispatch thinks that
investigation of the proper kind would
lead to the disclosure of the fact tina
not a few Of the deck hands found
drowned in the river, are murdered OF
steamboats,. It adds: We have person
ally witnessed several instances Of out
rageous brutality and oppression to
wards deck hands and laborers, BY
steamboat mates.
A rumor is current in England tha
Queen Victoria has a thought of pay
ing a visit during the coming summe
3 to Canada. The London papers tha
mention it advise Her Majesty to maxi
2 a visit. If she should do so, perhaps
q. she may take a fancy to call on he
rebellious relative, the fast young gen
tleman who spreads himself over tina
little slice of the globe between tn
80 Atlantic and the Pacific, and sails hi
canoe all along shore: whom dignife
O.. relations call ''Uncle SAM" and coun
try. cousins "Brother Jonathan" bu
who generally registers his own nam
".Young America" " No doubt he
treat her civilly and show her all tn
''lions."
e., Mr.. Elihu Burritt writes to the Ne
,'. York Herald from New Britain, Cor
necticut, in relation to his project fe
a line Of electric telegraph betwee
San Francisco and St. Petersburg
across Behring's Straits. 1t is sal
q that Russia has already. six thousan
miles in operation. Some Of her line
doubtless; are reaching eastward tOwaT
the Ural Mountains. At the conclt
sion of the war, she will be sure |
= extend them eastward into her Asiati
provinces. She will have the best ski
that American genius can supply
assist her in these enterprises; and 81
viii undoubtedly be ready to meet Il
United States half the way, in connec
idgNew York and st. Petersburg.
REcoNcILIATioN DINNER. = II
Washington correspondent of the
Y. Tribune says:
Mr.. Champion gave grand recol
eiliation dinner to the Ministers
Russia, France, and others, on We,
nesday evening. This is the on
social occasion in which the three fir
have personally participated since Il
war begun. The entertainment W
brilliant, and was enliyened by Il
presence Of the Legations now in t
city.
HEAyY RoRBERYs-A New 0rlea,
%. gentleman was robbed at the Gs
House, Louisville, June 2nd, Of fort
/. six hundred dollars.
Masonic GRAND LoDoE OF KlNsl
The following are the Grand Office
Of the new Grand Lodge of Kansa,
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