The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1859-05-19

Am. Home Missy Society 1881 1876
Am. and +. c. Union 1868 732O3
Am. AntiSlavery Society 1882 1885
N. 7. State Colonization Soc. 1924 26.835
Am. Fem Guardian 1919 3603O
N. 7. Sun. s. Union 1903
Am. Sea. Friend Society 1886 64.7O0
Female Magdalen Soc. 1926 6.484
Five Points House of Industry 1881 IL .535
Am and For. Bap. Bible $4,000 3O.87s
Boston Tract Society .57,O64
Lying-in Asylum 263S
Am. Bap. Free Mis- 1000
Am. Congregational Union -l2.Il7
+. E. Church Mis-. Society 1922
N. 7. Bible Society 1912 1871
sNiLe months.
In the Oberlin rescue cases, at Cleveland
sentence has been passed upon Messrs. Langston
and Bushnell. The former was condemned in
fine of 500 and costs of prosecution the
latter to sixty days Imprisonment and fine of
$500, besides the costs of prosecution. 1t is
stated that the costs in Mr.. Bushnell's case will
amount to $500.
ARRIVAL OF THE STAR OF THE WEsT.-The
steamer Star of the West, from Aspinwall on
the 4th, and Havana on the 9th, arrived at
New York on Saturday, bringing $l,4SO,I us
in specie.
Inc Stcdm irlgdte Merrlmac was TO leave
Panama shortly for Callao to investigate al
legged Oeutrages perpetrated upon American ship
ping there.
The Panama Star says that the Cass Herran
treaty, which was sent from Washington to Bo
gotta for ratification, has been lost in the Magda-
lena river, by the capsizing of a boat in which
it was placed.
a rumor was current at Acapulco (but, as
no date is given, the advices are probably not
so late as have been already received via Vera
Cruz that the Liberals had taken all the city
of Mexico except the palace.
We have the Oregon papers to the 10th of
April. The Oregonian of April 9Th says:
"CoL Wright, Major Wise, Major Alvord,
Capt. Jordan, and Lieut.. Hodges, all of the
United States army, returned from Steilacoom
on the steamer Cowlitz on Thursday night.
These gentlemen have been professionally en-
gagged as court martial at Steilacoom We are
not informed who were the accused, or what
was the result. According to law, it would
have been improper to ask. They all left yes
terday morning for their several military posts"
The Alta California of the 18th ult., saws
"The schooner E. L. Fsost, with one of the
firm Of c. A. Williams & Co., of this city, on
board, returned on the l4th from cruise in
search OF guano islands, having been eminently
successful. Some thirty or forty different isl
ands were visited between the ATTITUDES 22 deg.
N. and deg s., and longitudes $50 deg. and
10 deg. On five of the islands, large deposites
OF guano were found, and specimens brought
here, which have been declared by competent
Judges to be equal if not superior to the best
kinds of JarvissIsland. Messrs Williams & Co,
being American citizens, have sent in their
claim to the Department of State, in accordance
with the act of Congress of August Is, 1856"
A steamer from Fraser river brought $50, 900
In gold dust The prospects of the miners were
more favorable.
The San Francisco market was glutted with
most kinds of goods, and there was little
chance of a profitable return to Eastern ship
pers.
FROM KANSAS AND PIXIES PEAK-THE GOLD
MINES OF WESTERN KANsAs-LErTER FROM
New MExIcO.-Lawrence, May 2, l859.-The
immigration has thus far been immense; a
steamboat man, residing in st. Louis, informs
us that the number that have taken passage up
the Missouri river does not fall short of 20, 900.
The number by railroad (Hannibal and ST.
Joseph) We judge to be $4,000. In addition
to this, there is an immigration from the North
western States, Georgia, Arkansas, and Mexi-
co, by private conveyance. Among others, a
party OF eighty Georgians left Leavenworth last
week. To-day, party of fourteen, partly COM
posed Of Pennsylvanians, will leave this city.
Thousands have been camped around our prin-
cipal towns, waiting for the grass to grow to a
sufficient height to enable their cattle to make
the journey in safety. The hand cart compa-
MES, having an advantage over their grami-
nivOrous companions in this respect, started
several weeks ago. We are informed that some
of them made the journey in twenty -four DAYS.
The distance by the Smoky Hill route is $50
miles by the Santa Fe road, $50 miles. Both
routes are represented as being dotted with
emigrant trains; vehicles of every conceivable
shape are represented. Next to the ambulance.
with velvet-cOated mules, may be seen a man
with a wheelbarrow, perhaps hand-cart,
with bull harvested in it. We have seen
seven men start out with only the last-named
equipage.-COr. Phil. Bulletin.
Pixies PEAK EMIGRANTs RETURNING-THEIR
DESTITUTE CONDIrION.-AtchisOn Nay T.
The Salt Lake mail has Just arrived. have
just perused letter from one of their agents at
Cottonwood Springs. 1t gives a doeful and
most disheartening account of the Pixies Peak
emigration. Large numbers of disappointed
gold-hunters were already vending their way
back to the pale of civilization. But this is not
the worst feature Of the business. They come
back, as many of them as went without any
means of living on the way.
Destitute of provisions or means of convey
ance, disappointed and utterly disheartened,
toil-worn, foot-worn, and heart-weary, these
wretched adventures come struggling across
the plains in squads of dozens or scores, beg
cling at the stations for food to eat and a tenn
porary shelter from the driving storms. The
well-known generosity of the contractors on this
line will doubtless save many poor fellow from
furnishing by famine, but what can they do to
supply the wants ola starving multitude p Cor
ST. Louis Republican.
The following letter from near Taos, New
Mexico, (abOut two hundred miles south of
Pixies Peak will serve as safety-valve to the
enthusiast who is overcharged with GLOWING
accounts"
BARCLAYS FoRT, New MEXICO,
april S, 1859.
"DEAR FATHER: desire to impress you with
the fact that the Western Kansas gold mines
are mainly humbug. This is the stern real-
ty which, before next fall, perhaps 100000 per
sons will testify to with sadness. However hard
it is to crush the sanguine belief of those whose
hopes are up, nevertheless, truth is truth.
I" Mr.. Kronoz, who took up five loads of pro-
visions, &C., to the mines, has Just returned
He says that MIR. Barcaw, who went from Law
renee last year, is going to Sonora. Most of
the miners are discouraged. They earn from
nothing to two dollars per day. There are
doubtless good mines in Mexico but they need
capital to work them"
AcQuITTAL OF Rev. DANIEL DowNEY.-
charlottesville, Va, May IA. The case of the
Rev. Daniel Downey, Catholic priest, charged
with the murder of William Mullins, in Staun-
ton, Va, was concluded to-day. The jury, after
deliberatoin of twenty minutes, returned yer.
dict Of not guilty" Upon the rendering of the
verdict. the court house responded With annlause