Show NEWS ITEMS spiritualism is getting into respectable notice in new england on the evening of march governor banks with the lieutenant governor council members of the legislature the mayor of boston and other state and municipal dignitaries were invited to a private exhibition of spiritual phenomena by mr mrs ada conn coun usher and branning of the senate and walker of the housewert house Hou were appointed a committee to scrutinize the proceedings and detect if possible any deception the gentlemen t I 1 emen gave their opinion that all wa was fair and t the he phenomena inexplicable n k ag d A most extraordinary T wind avind prevailed p rek rev retailed ailed alleq on me tae ohio river of march sever several coal boats and nine lives are reported logt lost in the neighborhood of live island and wellsville the storm truck struck the river about the hour of seven and continued till about eleven with fearful violence the cries of the boatmen were heard at various points along the river th the wind ia is said to b have avo raged with terrific fury exceeding anything which has visited the ohio for many years AND ann ENGLAND special dispatch to the baltimore sun of marca 30 new york march 29 the london correspondent of the commercial predicts that england and france will be at war before the lapse of six months private letters from france represent co commercial m affairs as rapidly growing grow irig irim worse failures were increasing manufactories manti manu factories facto rles ries but sue uttering bering severely and prices of silks still declining one failure had bad taken place atly at lyons with american connections for tor between two and three million millions of francs and the liabilities bili hlll ties largely exceed the assets the havre correspondent of the commercial writes that the political horizon is again gloomy and a decrease of the consumption of manufactured goods inevitable evitable iti all speculative spee tila illa feeling had subsided and the internal condition of the country was wa becoming daily more threatening RUSSIA the ze it of berlin announces ahat in five more government 1 districts of russia namely orel kasan elsan and Pul tava the no nobility biliti hake baie e declared themselves ready to adopt the new arrangement of the relations between master and serf left open to their choice by the recent ukase of the emperor alexander this thin together with the six iu in which the same step has already taken place how show bow the movement to have already embraced the bif ah part of those portion portions of the empire in which serfdom wa was still a legal institution la in tact fact dispatches des deg patches from at Peters petera petersburgh burgh say gay ay that nearly tb th a whole of the rubian nobility are now in favor tavor of emancipating the serf serfs the carcase states tates that within the memory of man BO so muck much snow mow hag bag not fallen in tha the th mountains of the caucasus Cauca sug aua in any winter as during daring the present year the village of sa bammia near aa bas been completely buried twelve houses were crushed by avalanches from the moun mountains taing and seventeen ev enteen persons killed in several other parti parts of the same district similar accidents bad happened and beveral several peron persons lot lost their lives ilves one man was got out alive after having ben been bed buried under the he now snow for twenty four louro bourg the In invaline valide russe records rew new victories of ther the army of the caucasus A ietter letter to that journal announces that the important defile of Arg oune which has baa so 0 o often been attacked unsuccessfully io is at t length in of the russian troop troops earthquake acid AT i 7 A shock of earthquake was helfat athens a oil on Sunday sundy the tho of fe february auary fa no d a er was done following f n g day the a afflicting news newa arrived that nearly the whole town of corinth had been destroyed by the earthquake the ile fortress on the has gallen fallen fallen rallen and the columns of the temples have alio also been dashed to the ground by tho th shock Cala caia makil makij situated on the th isthmus is also a heap of ruins in one place the earth has opened and a river has sprung s rung up malch flows through the ruing ruina into the ae sea an english paper papel gives some come of the particulars on sunday february about eleven at night corinth was visited with an earthquake earth e that destroyed nearly every house in the city and was further f afflicted by the outbreak of fire which consumed a large amount of property the shock of the earthquake was felt dinall in all ail the surrounding villages villa gei alini achi achl the place of embarkation for athens has suffered in w a like manner as well as places of less note noto situated on the road to argos eighteen persons persona jost lost ost their lives and about abou t sixty were wounded a greater number than suffered on former similar occasion occasions this event has involved the inhabitants in much distress in addition to their usual usua asua 1 poverty they are not only exposed to the horrors of starvation but suffer much from the unusual severity of the weather veather the thermometer often f falling alling 21 to twenty fahr an uncommon circumstance in that quarter of greece the central government has hab as sent tents to the unfortunate victims of this calamity and also rendered them pecuniary assistance but there is reason neason to fear many will perish from f rom cold and hunger the pillars of the temple of minerva cocchia cus have been injured this was one of th the earliest specimens of doric architecture in greece one was split from top to bottom and others de faced the d duration of the shock was waa nine seconds and its first movement was wa in a vertical and then in a horizontal direction its centre seems to have been at the isthmus extending north and south and then east and add suffered west neither Cos Coat izza nor futraki have suffered buffered buff f the vibration was f felt elt at athens but did po injury to life and property A LETTER from china eftim estimates ates the lobs loaa of lives bythe by the bombardment of canton by the english eng li shand and french from to th ile bombardment lasted about thirty hours kouke CONGRESS AND washington special dial correspondence agton erce ence of the daily pennsylvanian Pennsyl vaman washington march the rhe bill for tha the ih admission of Alinne minnesota sofa soia into info the union is just now the important topic in the senate the president and secretary of war have been untiring in their efforts to make maks the best possible disposition of the little army v we e have so as to protect our position and at the same game time hold the rebellious mormons cormons in check but the fact is is growing more and mare more apparent every day that our force is is entirely inadequate for those purposes experienced soldiers ers do not hesitate to say that gen johnsona johnsons sons sona command at fort bridger is 18 in in the th power of the mormons cormons if they see bee fit to attak attack it 0 kansas is is still the absorbing theme in the th house 4 yesterday admiral pacha and suite visited the united states arsenal here by invitation of the secretary of war and the company af pf present ebent was large and anti distinguished A trial of f sharpens colts cola morses and burnsides Burns ides idea rifles v was as made in their presence and the accuracy and strength of thee these arms was very satisfactory the opinion seemed seeped to be that sharpes sharpens rifle was tb the most efficient and serviceable vi after the visitors had examined every evary everything thing of interest in the arsenal and there is much in in it to see t ther e were treated to a war dance by the sioux indians now in this thia city with all that the thie ottoman guests saw they expressed themselves much pleased and the day passed very agreeably away the turkish as well as the american officers present were w ere dressed in uniform and looked remarkably mar kably well weil preparations are being made by all parties for the municipal election in this city which is to come offin june next the parties in the field will be the know and anti know nothing organizations and another scene of riot not antl anil bloodshed is 13 anticipated the know kr ow nothing party wili will as a in baltimore have their organized organic ed bands of plug rip raps blood tubs 11 etc on the ground and it is ill said that the monumental city will to be largely represented here bere on the occasion by delag delegation actions from froin various fire 0 the city councils last last evening passed a resolution authorizing the organization of a temporary police force of one hundred men twenty one to be mounted and all to be armed and equipped for service at the expense of the corporation patrols are also to be organized in the different wards and congress is to be asked to increase the auxiliary guard all these movements were demanded by the prevalence of assassinations and incendiaries abere here is a delicious little rain song borg as musical as the rain itself we know not who wrote it but is it not beautiful millions of massive rain drops have fallen upon all around they have danced on the housetop houget opt ip hidden bidden in the ground they are liquid like musicians with anything for keys beatin beating tunes upon the windows koepli keeping ng time upon the trees 0 atthe th t scotch hate hare this pro erbe UA A adi ord is ai a s goon boon ald aid said ss as amill awill one |