The Kanzas news., 1858-04-10
Editorial News Items.

Editorial News Items.
Thomas B. Cunning, Secretary and
Acting Governor of Nebraska, died at his
residence in Omaha City, on the morning
of the Esd instant. He was but 80 years
of age.
The clergy of Chicago recommended
their respective congregations to set apart
Sunday as day of prayer. for the purpose
of beseeching the Almighty to interpose in
the struggle now going on in Washington,
and prevent the consummation of the Kan
zas iniquity.
Robinson, the telegraph builder. has
just completed fire alarm and police tele-
graph for Brooklyn, n. Y.
"A stabbing affray came off at Lecomp-
ton, last week. The man stabbed received
a severe wound in the left lung, from the
effect of which he died on Tuesday night.
Death has been busy among the Ro-
man Cardinals-twelve have been called to
their last account since the beginning of
winter.
In the past few weeks $50 persons have
Joined the various churches in Hannibal,
Missouri.
At Republican Convention held at
Charlottesville, Ind, recently, one of the
speakers in alluding to the frauds which the
Lecompton party are sustaining in the Kan
zas election, said ''that the Buchanan men
had abandoned the Cincinnati platform to
stand upon the Cincinnati Directory"
The London AMenaeuns states that the
project of a second Crystal Palace Exhibi-
ton of All Nations, to take place in 1861,
is on foot. The proposals thus far consid-
cred, contemplate a universal collection of
the Fine Arts but the Athenaeuns advo-
Gates an extension of this idea so as to pro-
vide for an exhibition of Industrial Art.
New York as it is: The banks glutted
with money, the city with -four, and some
thing like one-ffth of the population de-
pendent on charity.
-Mr. Davis, the well known peach
grower..of Clermont county, Ohio, reports
that not more than one peach bud in twenty
thousand has escaped the frost Many
other prominent horticulturists make SINH
lar reports.
Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, declined to
give lecture for which he had made an
engagement in Springfield, Thursday even
ing, on account of the present religious in
terest in the community.
"A serious and fatal epidemic, some
what similar to typhoid fever. has been
prevailing fearfully at the University of
Virginia for some weeks past. Quite a
number of the students have already died,
and many are still sick. Great alarm pre-
walls amongst those remaining.
At Ripley, Ohio, the proprietor of a
gambling saloon was recently converted,
and, at his request, a daily prayer meeting
was organized in his rooms, and is carried
on with great animation.
The Washington letter-writers say that
the President is worn down with anxiety,
and looks very much jaded; and one of
them says that he has recently said that he
felt as though he could not live six months.
The Attica, Ia, Ledger says that all the
fruit buds in that region are in good condi-
ton except the peach, which seem to be
destroyed.
Col. Fremont sailed; from New York
for California on Saturday, with his family,
to be absent few months.
On the trial of the conspiritors who
attempted the life of Napoleon III, ply
sician testified that Sc persons were wound
ed at the Opera house, and that 81 wounds
were inflicted by the bursting of the bombs.
-Attorney-General Black has written
a letter to Secretary Cass, deciding that
the act calling the late Constitutional Con-
vention did not become law.
1t appears from the last hank statement
that the specie in the New York banks
reached nearly thirty millions.
"A Washington letter-writer says THAI the
bar of one of the fashionable hotels of that
city has taken s2l 900 for drinks in the
past fourteen months.
Among those who are said to have be-
come converts. in the great revival now go
ing on in New York. is George Law.
Gen Whitfield has been removed from
his position as Register of the Kickapoo
Land Office.
"A semi-mouthly mail is running be-
tween Kanzas City and Santa Fe. extending
to El Passo. in Texas.