New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-05-27
The clipper ship Comet sailed for Hong Kong sses
week with go COS Of ire,s1re, ueaJy 81 shipped ey

week with tbi 6o5 Of ire1spre nsaSy 81 smPPeo "
During the lat Ten MONTHS 80 $50 boxss Of aPptes
col tanning from 40 20 50 pouDds each, have been re-
ceiv.d here from Oregon ard cold at from - 20 -
cents per pound Nearly al the shipments Of March
bruug - cents. The total amount in pounds Il s-n-
mated at 75I, AGO. s. Geo bushels, and The pr'e
laid by the wholesale dealers So, 10.
The GINA Eateryrise -t.tes tha. two Californian
passed ibreugh Carson Valley afoo., on their way 20
Pixies Pax.
The lat mail carried news 10 you NJ large lani
slide IN the town If Monte Cristo, Sierra County,
Whereby ihr-e persom. ~ere killed Another -ihiia
sl- but without any IA al consequence has -urTsd
10 the town # Minnesota, in the Fame coan:y ne
Dcr.prIHe CHl-eH ssys:
On sa1dy ia April ,a- Sn q 1.I:s' Sso y ss
% s.l I ai.a~r -. f TIE sane.. portion
~ .s.rs nm A., tu.: " de ensosh for one
ioT. Of baiidiR, o. me csh6 bn 'hi1f
bais stream qes sand Serted, shleh in ~.
III, haLi above way ind csrd "a sey.rs building. "a
tie .de Of .-,, the banding. .ssa bach ssd ne
.GE .G 'si' WEI sg; y IayR. 5l MIR SS Ii.
divorce has been granted in this city TO Emma T.:
Cruther. from her husband Marshal Ii. Cfuihera and
in Sacramento 10 Mary X. Vanhou'en, from M Vaa
bouien. The Supreme Court has granted COMFY.
divorce in the notorious case Of q. W. Baker Vs. NAT
lie D. w Baker wherein the District Court refused 20
gran. The divorce because the only EVIDENCE that The
living end vigorous child born five mouths after mar
rage, the child of the husband, was The sIn7
81. # the wife AMI because the admissions @! Tue
parties are not received evidence III divorce suiOs
under statute. The Supreme Court decided tnat
III. peculiar circumstance under which the copieiou
in this case was made fs repetition the de-ignnton py
pane of the supposed father the justification by her OF
the Indignation of the busband, and other conduct snow"
ing a COZ sciousness uf ofeDse on her part took the
case hey 0nd the re Of the statute and made The words
and acts Of admission acs in the case ard competent
evidence.
We have little news in the theatrical line. Mss
Avoa Jones, the very tragic tragedenne, has played
out the blood and thunder yi sybi aud cannot draw
in any other piece. All the enthusiasm for smuse-
inert is now monopOIiZed by the Italian opera which
il 70 be given by Signnr ard SignOrs Blanchi, Mon
sieur and Madame Ferret, MoLseur and Madame Ron
g. vieri &c. James Anderson, the tragedian, has
taken the American Tbea,er, and will commence
far, well engagement there next week. lpre-ume he
has cleared $4,000 $4,000 during his brief stay IN
tn. State. ,
Cow Douglas has written tn the Home Govern
neIt advising the establishment OF mint 10 Victoria.
During the past fortnight $40 coo have been shipped
TO this city AM the I'D of April $4,000 arrived at
Victoria rom Fraser River. The Victoria Ga.e.te
states that between Jarrh and April 10, $3.50, 900
had been shipped from YiciuTa % San Frauciso, but
have report here Of more than about <lCo go.
The rush Uf men ~ the Canoe Country," in the
upper part Of Fraser Valley, has ceased, AMI some of
those who well, III, in the excitement seversl months
ago, are coming back disappointed. 80 we goi mp
ard down. Tie Victoria Gd>ette, publishing the
st.teueIt Of person lately arrived from the Upper
Fraser, says:
There are row abou, 1000 engaged work in what
termed the Canoe Country ana making from $40 - so day
70 the nan and he estimates there are from Leo I
d.,crbed as yet Bsi.ea aid Balloon countries em
Or go a Ts: md wh Of when vaS@e
Provisions rs:ed the lime Of his working ayther hsS four
dera bard 70 be 60; :. tsa In fac, the COS. .o.:
doubled he PFC. .vs1 when ah h, into 81 % s IN.
packing or rather backing Of them in return"
The Indians along the Lillout-Iarrison trail are
ported TO be starving.
Our dates from Portland are to the 9th April.
The X publican= have nomin ated David Logan for
Congress and the Administration party has selected
Lansng Stout as ia candidate for the same position.
Stout was a Know Nothing member Of the California
Legislature in 1876. The election 10 TO be held IN
June.
Spokan Gary, the noted thief who was educated at
the Red RIvrr Settlement, says the Spokan tribe IN
the eastern part Of Washington Territory are willing
10 seli their lands by treaty to the Government and
in fact to submit to whatever orders the Government
may ssue. They satisfied that they cannot resist
tbs hlte man.
Two companies of United States troops at Fort Sim.
coe, in the Yakima Valley, have been ordered to
Okansgan, and are 10 join the Boundary Commission
when it arrives there On IT, way eastward from Be-
miyhmoo, where it still IL.
10 Colvie and several companies ara TO 60 flom van
CONVEX TO Fort Boise These expeditions with that o!
Col. Hoffman 10 the Mojave Valley, Will put strong
checks on the Indians remaining In the States bound
ing on the Pacific.
The navigation Of the Columbia River is interrupted
by Falls called the Cascades, the Daes, and Priests
Pupils have not the exact figures at hand, out
will estimate the distance from Astoria 10 the Cascades
at us miles, thence - the Daes, 20 miles, and thence
10 Priests Rapids $50 miles. Steamers have long been
running between Astoria and the Cascades and from
the Cascades b the Dalles. There has also been
steamer for time above the Daes, running up TO
Walls Wala, distance of about lS0 miles. Her route
is now be extended TO Priests Rapids as far az she
can 60, aud town is 10 be built Il. the Rapids.
The Norh-Wcstrrn Boundary Commission will start
from SemiahmoD very soon, If il is not already on the
way eastward.
4 weekly express is TO be established between Van
couver and the Covle mines.
A daily newspaper, called The MRS has been es-
tablished in Portland.
Gen. Palirer a well known Oregonian, was 10 start
from the Dalles for Fraser River on the 21ih April.
We have dates from the Sandwich Islands 70 the
18th April.
The American ComInis soner and the Driti.h Consul
had united III demand Of a reduction i'll the duty on
cert ain kinds uf liquor produced in the United States
and England This deiiahd is made under the " most
favored nation clruse of the American and British
rraiies, France having ,.sned, il said, similar
reduction on her brandies The Ala, 10 speaking Of
the demand and III. Kauakas, Gays:
mo friend az humanity look ;rcr history. nce The
discovery the Islands BY Cok eight yea. witou.
T,ed bv he Wees ~ the civilized white man They
bei rd BY lead and es bat By far nor f3y .'s "a. Nm IL
sd uc-d from 40 The Of cry cent de.
sv. yGe sI +. k:n ,s Q. Ss Nh siy
witbou, .,in. TO ssi., il killing themselves eff"
Tie maumast Of the wbalc-sh;p Levi Starbuck was
shvered pieces by lightning Ill the harbor OF Lahai-
La on the 5ih ult.
TIE Commercial Adrertiser, of Hsnolulu, says;
Prom v.riou. source. that ID. rench GcyEen'
which Ia, long beeu planning change 81 policy m t south Ia
ciuc CAMPING them into eject IL 10 WILL
dpwne civil and military offer. from IL MaIqness a.
Tahiti ali their military establishment eavilx
only few The pisH eutraees furthermore the
tete restoration q Pozr ruler 81 the Soc-y Islands,
and perhaps entire withdrawal u the civil officers
IN there II France carries cl ths plan ils d % Isah
for her much Of that the foynesn which
With Ta.il and folnare deprived heI u The poy