The Kanzas news., 1858-03-20

The Constitution of Iowa provides
that the State shall never contract debt
exceeding $3.50. GOO. Under this section
of the Constitution, the State has recently
made q loan of saoo. 900 at par, being
per cent. interest, of Messrs. Cook and Sar
gent, of Davenport, Iowa. The Constitu-
ton also provides that no other debt than
specified above shall be contracted, unless
sanctioned by direct vote of the people, and
that such debt shall be for some single
work or object, and the Act creating the
debt shall also lay direct tax for the pay
ment of the interest, and the reimburse
ment of the principal within twenty years.
The N. 7. Evening Post says that
Prof Morse has been left out of the Board
of Directors of the Atlantic Telegraph
Company.
We very much regret to state, says the
Cincinnati Commercial, that the majority
of horticulturists in this region are deplor-
ing the sad calamity that has befallen the
peach crop. We are informed that the last
warm spell, succeeded by sharp frosty wealth
er, killed large portion of the buds of the
orchards hereabouts. We have net sever
al fruit raisers, however, who express a
hope that the orchards have partially escaped.
The two branches of the Massachusetts
Legislature In convention, elected Hon. Ste
phen NJ. Weld of West Roxbury (Unita-
rian), Hon. Daniel W. Alvord of Green
field (Orthodox), Rev. Thomas B. Thayer
of Boston (Universalist), John G. Whittier
of Amesbury (Quaker), and Rev. Barron
Stow of Boston (Baptist).
The venerable widow of President Har-
rison, has been for considerable time con-
fined to her bed, at the residence of her son,
]. Scott Harrison. Old age, rather than
any praticular disease, has asserted its in
fuenee upon naturally robust organization.
Mrs. Harrison is now more than eighty
years of age.
The Baptist Almanac for 1858 gives
the number of regular Baptists in the Uni
ted States at 897,718; in the British Prov
inees at 28,912; and in the West India is
lands at 36,O5O; total in North America
962, $780, The total number baptized in
1857 was 55,259.
Strong apprehensions are said te be felt
that DR.. Leichardt, the celebrated Austria
lian traveller, has shared the fate of Sir John
Franklin. Four thousand FIVE hundred
pounds have been voted by the Legislature
of New South Wales for the expenses of the
proposed expedition in search for him.
The Philadelphia american and Ga
zette says that, Notwithstanding the very
great number of power looms now operative,
there are at least three thousand hand looms
worked in that city for the production of
cotton and mixed cloths.
The Boston Traveller says that since
January first the importation of foreign
goods at that port had fallen off mole than
fifty per cent. The imports last year ave-
ragged more than one million dollars each
week; thus far this year they have been
only S458, 600 per week.
The Democratic State Convention OF
Illinois is called to meet at Springfield on
Wednesday, April 21st, for the purpose of
nominating candidate for State Treasurer,
and candidate for Superintendent of Pub
lie Instruction.
The commissioners of the Kentucky
Trust Company Bank burnt, an evening or
two since, $4,000 of the notes of that
bank, which had been redeemed.
We learn from the Fort Smith Ark. J
Times that an expedition is about starting
from that place to Albuquerque, n. M
DR.. Shumard, the geologist and physician,
who accompanied Capt. Marcy in his ex-
plorations on the Plains, will head the ex
pedition.
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