Show THE NEWS by the eastern mail which arrived on monday evening we received new york and other eastern dates to may 19 and st joseph to mayal may 21 the most exciting item of news in the states was the arrival of the japanese embassy at washington Was lington on may 14 consisting of four diplomatic personages with a few servants and were received and escorted to the willard house with much muck pomp and parade on the I 1 fifth atti itil the embassy visited the depart mant of state and were received by secretary cass preliminary to any official presentation to the president on the following day they were particularly obi observant ervant of etiquette another matter ot of considerable interest was the defalcation of mr fowler postmaster of new ew york who has sloped to the tune of lw 00 mr john A dix is his successor mr air samuel P Butterworth to whom the office was first tendered having declined its acceptance mr Will wiil william lali iara caldwell deputy postmaster masl masi er and treasurer of the office with several officials are suspected of complicity in the fhe matter the covode committee in congress appear lohaze I 1 0 have haxe plenty of business on hoid huid h ind and new developments are constantly bein being made and according to the testimony tha thai has been given before said committee commett ee about were e ex X in bribing members to get the E english n lish bill so called passed by congress V angress on gress one member 1 from to for his ohp drouth in new england was very ceryse severe and the source of much trouble amo among n aho ir people cattle in ia some places had to be driven many miles to water fires were raging 0 in many of the f orests forests doing a vast amount of damase damage da mahe maLe and there was waa not moisture enough in I 1 lie he ground to cause the seed sown and planted by the husbandman to germinate nebraska city was nearly destroyed by fire on the ol 01 may at hannibal mo there was an extensive f fire ire lre on the lith and also ona at lexan tan ton the same day the steamer 11 F sass was snagged and sunk sank near memphis tenn there was also a tremendous s flood at baltimore and two or three vessels were sunk or stranded on the lakes we did not receive full files of our exchanges es and no account of the proceedings of the chicago convention after the adjournment ent on the evening cf the loth of ot may if reports of correspondents were true there was not the most perfect harmony exi exl existing stin in that body and there was more than a little wire pulling 9 amon expectants expect ants and their fri friends ends to secure the nomination |