Nebraska advertiser., 1859-05-12
News Items.

News Items.
The War Department has received q
heavymail from Gen. Johnston. command
ing the forces in Utah. The complications
and difficulties between Federal and Judi
cial officers is fully explained, and his
crurse in responding to the Judiciary, as a
coordinate branch of the Government, is
fully sustained and justified.
1t appears that Governor Cumming
was acting under special instructions from
the State Department, and directly oppo-
site TO the instructions Of Col. Johnston
and the judicial officers. The Cabinet
has had the subject under consideration.
Gen. Johnston's dispatches change the
aspect of affairs there, and it is not known
what course the Administration will p1r-
sue as between the federal and judicial
officers. :.
The English have taken possession CT
another island inthe Red Sea, which they
claim to have purchased from an Arab
Sheik. The name of this last acquisition
in Kramakan. II lies north of Perm,
near the Arabian shore, and it is said to
be almost wholly surrounded by submarine
banks; rendering easy of defence.
The Kansas City Journal, of the 3Oth,
says:
James NJ. Sexton, Esq, Just returned
from a trip into the Territory, says he met
no, less than a thousand people for Pixies
Peak, in a distance of forty miles. on the
Santa Fe road.
Dickens has been engaged to write for
the New York Ledger. What. the deuce
viii Dickens do next?
1t is ys, a disputed question whether
the peach crop has been entirely destroyed
by thu late ~unfavorable weather. At Gin
~cinnati it is.reported hat the peach crop,
though injured, was not altogether blight
ed, and the trees, or a. portion Of them,
will bear good fruit, if not in such abund-
ance as usual. In this vicinity we. hear
a like account; and in the neighborhood
of Alton. it is not a settled question. We
shall learn differently in a few days
St. Louis Republican.
We have recently passed through the
entire. length Of East Tennessee, and into
Middle Tennessee, and were pleased to
observe the promising appearance of The
wheat crop along the line. Our prospect;
are that we shall have an immense yield
should no misfortune befau the growing
crop. In Virginia, Georgia, Alabama
and Kentucky the indications are quite
Efayorable.-KnoRriH Wig.
A gentleman who arrived in this city
last eveningfrcm the East informs US thai
he never saw the crop Of winter whea,
look better in his life than itnow does
through Northern Ohio and Indiana. The
roads in that direction he reports as dry
and settled, the farmers busy at theil
spring work, with every prospect Of
generous crop the ensuing SUMNER
Chicago Democrat.
The New York Tribune says that il
utterly scouts the fashionable assumption
that such exposures as those of the Key
tragedy and Sickles trial are demoraliz.
ing. On the contrary. it regards them a;
the thunder-storms by which the moral
atmosphere is improved if not absolutely
purified.
SINCE our last Issue we have had a
second edition of winter, there having
been several frOsts, but on Monday morn
ing last the heaviest frost appeared. The
ground was frozen and all kinds of vege.
tation which had shown itself was de-
strOyed.-. hurfreesborO Tenn. Tsls-
graph.
Two barrels Of green peas, the first Of
The season, were sent to Baltimore by the
steamer last evening. They were raised