New-York daily tribune., 1859-06-07
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about :Tc niles u width, lying Few miles soa.a-wes
OF Hagerstown, Nd, which is reported 20 have beer
very destructive Of the growing Wheat crop wi.hir
is range. Tie Torch says:
I'VE have been told ths, the cr"p of Mr.. jacob n
Harry, residing near the Wiliamsport turnpike, y
total wreck and that further south. G the vicinity OF
The College Of s. james he extensive crops ot Ae>rs
John X. Rowland John W. Brea.hed, John :. Naoti.
Henry :. Shank Samnel Hoover John Young, and
other. have been injured 20 such extent ths; they
are 10. worth So or The COS, oi he seed The track
Of the storm has been traced far JOness Cross
Roads bu, may have goue beyond that point. Some
Of the hail a. large ss hen egg, and after the
storm over, they cond have been gathered by the
wagon load. Clover fields, orchards an 4 gardens,
were also compls,ely DESTROYED presenting the bleak
and melancholy aspec. Of midwin;er and al the Col
lege Of =. james hurdreds OF panes OF glass were
broken. The wreck Is thorough and thus IN one hour
have thousands Of doars worth If property the pro-
duct of y ear of hard toll and patient care, been
svep; away as with besom q. destruction
THE AxooR Country TIE following interesting
letter is published in Tie Preri2eHce Journal;
"Nicoics,ssB, Agi0or Rirer.-Ths i the principal
Russian M itary station on the Pacific, and having
been chosen port OF refuge during the late war, II
has since become the seat Of government for Eastern
Slberia-also the naval station IL - pleasantly sNu
atcd on the Amoor twenty miles from its mouth, n-
closed by dense forests which extend far rs the eye
can reach. /, coutsns some two thousand mhah!-
tsu;s-mostly soldiers and sailors. The Government
have large mschine shop 10 repair and build engines
IN, and il : gratifying that il s all of American manu-
facture ard under the superintendent OF American
mechanics We have now in port several fine speci-
mems If naval architecture, ba for this Government
in the United States There are quite number OF
foreign merchants doing very Profitable business.
Among the number are three American houses, one oil
which has recently bull, steamer for river navigation;
and soon will be heard, far in the interior OF Slbers
and along the northern boundaries Of China and ar
tary the whistle of an American steamer The pfn-
cpa trade a. present in furs, in exchange for Ameri-
can provisions and manufactures.
This is not destined 10 become the great CONNER
cal mart Of the Amoor, as the rivers mouth Is very
shallow aud n,rcate 4 town IL already projected
some three hundred miles above this and but a iew
miles from the Gulf of Tartary and will be connected
by railroad. which is already surveyed, with good
han Dor open nine months IN the year. Without doubt
thi. will be the center of all trade. A. the Amoor ex-
tends far in the interior OF Siberia passes many large
cities and the trade must increase rapidly and eventu.
sy become immense: for goods can be purchased and
sent 10 the interior of Siberia from San Francisco, al
less cost than they from Moscow or ST. Petersburg
by land. The Russian Government have taken pos.
session of vas, extent Of territory TO the south OF
the Amoor, and have discovered on The Gull Of Tar
tary fine capaciou harbor, far enough south 10 be
free from ice the entire year. This is the desderaum
for which they have long sought. understand tins
will be the great naval depo. of the Pacihc.'
THE GoLD MlyEs OF VIcroRI,.-By the steamer
Columbia, which arrived in San Francisco April ~,
from the North, papers come from Nletona, '. L. to
26th April; from Olympus, Puget Sound, W. t. to
April p; ard from Crescent City 70 the @'th. The
Victoria papers speak despoudingly of the gold pros
pec's.
The VictGrtd GG-c,,c mentions the arrival, at lis
place of the steamer Beaver, from Langley, on |2d
April, with fifteen passengers, two OF whom were
miners. II adds:
The accounts from the Canoe Country continue to
be- encouraging far as he diggngs are concerned,
though al unite il stating the difficulties o reachng
TO be very grea and The prices of provisions to be very
high.
!" ore of the two miners who came passengers on
the Beaver, on the 22d April, was Canoe Country
campaigner.
o00O men engaged a. work IN what II termed the
Canoe Country and making from sl0 10 s!D per lay
10 the man; and he estimates that there are from
thousand TO fifteen hundred more engaged in pros
pectng the various districts indefinitely described as
vet az the Batteau' and Balloon countries, embrac-
ing what 10 supposed Ia be Q ricb mining region
of some two hundred three hundred miles in length
and the width of which ls only vaguely surmised
Prov sions rated at the time of his working nyther
high; -four 81 per fb bacon ~ ~ per n, and beans
Al per 10, and dernd hard 10 be- got at that In
fact the cost almost doubled the prices above given,
when taken into consideration the time lost and hard
labor performed in the tramp for them and the pack
ing or rather backing of them in return
4 GAME or STATE REPUDIsrIoS!-In accordance
with threat of The Atids and Argus, toward the
close Of the session Of the Legislature Controller
Church, the Fiscal Ooer of the State, has announced
his determination rot 20 provide for interest on the
State debt payable the 1T Of July The pretext for
this act Of reputation is that the Legislature did not
raise the money by tax, though the Commissoners oil
the Canal Fund have power under the Constitution,
Ia borrow upon the credit of the canal debt sinking
fund The lnea successors Of the old Albany Re
gency forget hat their party once made political
capital by suspendng the public works, destroying the
State credit and runously depreciatng the value OF
the State stocks Nor do they remember the s,Orm ot
uopnlar Indignation which followed, deprving them of
eyery vestige Of power For that act of Loco Foco
destructyeness, five precious years, ard millions OF
dollars were lost. The delay in completing the en-
largement of the Ere Canal, stimulating the opening
of competing routes through the neighborlng States,
thus deprivDg NewYork Of advantages which, had
our canal been completed in loiJ, never could nave
been wrested from us.
And now. .fer years Of embarrassment and difiicnl
ty when by the mprovidence if not dishonesty of Ca
nal Officers and when, from adverse Influences, the
Canal Revenue has fallen below any former experience,
the Comptroller starts game OF Reputation. Inc
State so far he il concerned, IL gong To Protest
Our State Stocks % be again wantony deprecated
-distns and panic 70 ensne, 50 that now, as IN lSi2
the Ast0rs and NewbOds may realise large profits ont
OF the purchase Of discredted securities.
Such il 70 be the condition OF things on the lst OF
July fthe Manhattan Bank does not upon Its own re-
sponsibLy nterpose 10 save the credit OF the state
should that INSTITUTION, upOn being officially informed
by the Comptroller that ke viii NOT provide for the ac-
cfnpg interest come forward voluntarily 10 protect the
faith and credit Of the State the rebuke will be alike
emphatic and salutary. Alb. Eve. Journal.
ENrRAoRDIS.KY EscAPE.-We received Tuesday
afternoon particulars Of escape from death welngh
miraculous. About Z. N. on Monday, hr. IL. Z.
Holden of Winooski, and Mr.. Tepny, Superintendent
Of Bridges the Vermont Centr Railroad, we're ex-
amning the undeT-timbers Of the deck bridge across
the Winoo-ki neaIest the lime-kiln. plank on
which Mr. Holden stood broke under him, and be fell
through the bridge. A. he fell, he thre. his arms
across timber about five feet below, aud hung sus-
pended some forty feet above the rocks and shallow
water. Mr.. Tenny unable to raise him from his
perilous position Two Of IIoldens men, who were 10
sanily a the spot unable afraid To render any
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