, 1859-03-30

| CATTLE SrEALERs ARREsTED.--Two nlen, sup
| posed to belong TO the Henry County ganE,
were arrested in Peoria on Saturday last tDr
st..l!ns fur yoke Of oxen, three Of which were
| stolen in the above county and one OH the road
| to pcoriu. When first tracked they were on
foot, but as they arrived with horse it is sup
| posed that Wis also stolen. These men with
those recently arrested make seven of the gang
Tin limbo
4 LARGE WoLr.-A large grey wolf, measnr::
ing over five feet in length, was recently killed
! in Peorin County by Caleb johnson, Esq, Mr.
| Johnson brought the wolf to Peoria, supposlng
that the bounty of five dollars which used to be
! paid had not yet been Withdrawn. lie says that
| he saw Il pack Of seven at one time on the brow
Of thc bluff near his residence
| Fnrl7-Nc hear that the last cold snap DAM
| aged the fruit trees slightly. Several apple
trees which were pointed Out to us on Saturday
afternoon looked us if Jack Frost had visited
| them and murdered many Of their buds. But
levers Of fruit must not be discouraged, for tho
damage done BY the frost this winter is consi-
dered BY good judges to be very slight.-L'|oom-
i"yton Ia"tdyrdph.
Fon plkE's PEAK.-Thc Toledo Tins says.
that fifty persons have left that place bound for
| Pixies Peak.
Immigrants for the Peak are passing through
our town. and hare been for soHr weeks, At the
| rate of five to ten teams 4 day. We presume
this number will be increased Us soun as thu
| roads become better. We hear Of many persons
| in this county who will soon be in motion for
| the golden lauds.--Narion, (Li". TO-, a. At-
yisttr.
! "A company Of eight men from near Ply
! mouth, ILL.,. passed through the city yesterday,
| with two long TX teams, bound for Pikc's Peak.
Their outfit attracted general attention. We
rather think they will wish they ncver had
started befnre they get through their expedition.
-htot"k (Iosra) Gdte City. .6th.
Nc understand TINT Mr. Elisha Burrows,
| (son of our well known fellow citizen, J. N. u.
Burrows.> with several others. started yestcr
I tion," Us the play bills would call it, seems to
be drawing I'LL Of our citr. We hope they may
| moi he disappointed. but IT is Il great deal Of d
| risk to run.-ldrenPort 1t'rs, 45th-
= Mr. Adolphus Bennett, whose departure
for Pixies Peak we have alluded to in another
paragraph, was the first Mayor Of Davenport
He should hare been escorted to the river by
military! His home is at Princeton, and he is
now pretty old to start on such Il long trip as
this, but he has the life and viyor Of Il Young
man vet. We wish him good timc.-l'artn-
port Gazette, 44fh.
We noticed quite number Of cmigrant
wagons passing through our streets this fore
noun, bnund for the new gold regions. One
party, of whom VIC made inquiry. was from
Rockford, ILL.,, which place they left on Tuesday,
the 18th inst. They numbered elcven men, tile
same number Of yoke Of oxen md four wagons,
in which they carried their campaign aVpara-
tus, Ac-H1scutint tIoTal .'oHraal.
rush to Pixies Peak By the Hannibal and st.
Joseph Railroad, through that city, continues
10 increase daily. On Friday last Sol pas>en-
gers, all fur the gold region, arrived there on Il
single train, and the day following 400 others
arrived.
When VIC consider that the rush has only COM
menced, aud will not reach its height till about
the middle Of April We may form some appro1i-
mate estimate If the huge tide Of population
surgin z Westward to spread itself over tic bo-
som ot tflc naScent State Of Colonna- The Han.
nibal and ST. Joseph Road is only one Of the
channel through which the living stream rushes.
More th:n a thousand person.: day pass
ers and the Pacific Railroad; numbers of others
cross the Mississippi ut various ferries, in
wagons. nnd, avoiding the cities, steer br the
most dire roads for the Western border Of the
State while nearly all who start from the South
ern States 90 up the Arkansas River through
Ft Smith. 1t is fair to estimate the number of
Pixies Pea kers going westward, through the
several avenues Of travel. at 1000 per diem.
They come from every State in the Union. but
chiefly from the Wcst-from Illinois. Indiana,
Ohio, Michigan, Visions n Iowa and Kentucky,
nearly every county, town and hamlet in some
at Which / ct1ESS scaas onI company III len,
twenty or hirty. Six months from this day the
unorganizcd region Of colonna (thc name pro.
posed for ii new Territory, Twill contain pop
ulation Of $1,000 souls. 1t will probably come
into the Uni on us State at the next Congress
81. Louis -sf1ct.
A LoSo oxcxA1Ep Cn1HE DlscovERED.-The
Rochester [ tnd.) Ga:tt{t states that about five
: cars ago, q man calling himself Alonzo Nor
ra.n, acconp: luicd by WOMAN who passed as
lis wife, moved to that place where they pur-
chase d farm, md liyed apparently in very
rcspccl able rn,.nncr, until about year ago,
when Nj, More an died. The widow said that
he had no hcisi 5 but herself, and accordingly
administered til property. About three months
since she took second husband, and everything
was apparently igoing.o on well, when there ar
rived tn town, Il 70 person in search Of Nr.
Alouro Green, ho had disappeared from the
State Of New 70 rk in 1854, md had not since
been he ard Of. '0ne Of the strangers claimed to
be Green's son, nd stated that his father had,
in the above name d year, oped with niece of
lis wife. a Miss En- INA LanfFheir. The newly
married widow Morgan was at once identified
as the m ing Miss t., and the identity Of Alonzo
Morgan q nd Alonzo Green satisfactorily estab-
lished. 1 be guilty woman vas willing to make
ony settle ment. and surrender notes and other
properly 0 the rightful claimant. Out Of 73 400
iaken b. d reen from New York, bis family viii
recover aho ut 81, 400.