| Show eastern news items by mail the eastern mail matl arrived at the usual time on saturday afternoon mith with ith dates from new york to the arid and from cleveland to the I 1 uit the news other than what has been anticipated is not very important s havel and bad it been otherwise we could no not t have bave made a very lengthy summary this week for want of space the cold stormy weather weathers wea that had prevailed v in rew new dew england engrand En gIand gland land and all along the coast for a week or more previous to the of march was followed by the equinoctial storm on that day which is reported to have been very severe more so than any storm occurring curr at the time of the vernal equinox since 1843 snow falling in great abundance and the wind blowing D a heavy gale at albany ald the snow fell eight or nine inches at R fifteen inches and other places along C the hudson to about the same depth the navigation of the r iver niver was entirely suspended and the steamers and other crafts had to get into the nearest harbor and remained there till the storm abated and the ice in the river r ver passed away at boston the storm was the severest of the season and of ion lon long iong continuance at philadelphia the wind wa was high 0 and very cold with plenty of snow much ida lda damage in a g e was done to sapping along the coast an and d t the e destruction on land lard is reported as having been coextensive with the storm tile the coal oil excitement in new york pennsylvania ohio and virginia is very great and new nelv discoveries are constantly being made at depths varying from three to three hundred feet unless unies there is a great consumption of the article it must inevitably soon become of less value in market than it is now as there are large quantities of ef it bein being obtain el every day from the thousands of wells that tha t have been bunk sunk the army of office seekers that thronged thron 7 ged the national capital upon the inauguration of mr lincoln had materially decreased and they were vending ven din their way homewards by hundreds and by fifties many of them greatly dissatisfied because they had been denied the privilege of serving their country in such capacity cipa city as they severally wished there were not offices enough in the gift of the president to supply one tenth part of the applicants with positions they considered themselves competent to fill but should civil war become the order of the day for which the prospect seems very fair some ol 01 the disappointed aspirants may find employment as fighting a men 1 in the ranks if their abilities and acquire ments as military men are of that order that they may be considered unfit to command the papers continue to be filled with reports of bankruptcies and failures of mercantile and manufacturing establishments by scores and the confidence of man in his fellow man 1 has not bee been n improved by the revolution revolutionary ny I 1 movements that have been progressing 0 so 1 rapidly for the last few months I 1 late intelligence had been received at fort smith from the army in new mexico A treaty had been manewith ma made dewith with the navajos cavajos Nava Nav jos by col canby most if not a ail all 1 of the officers who entered the service from the seceding a states had resigned their commissions the quartermasters department was without funds and had no credit the paymasters paymaster department was in a like condition the I 1 troop would soon be out of supplies of I 1 every description and would have to provide for themselves and every thing connected with the service was represented as be being ing 1 i in in I 1 a most deplorable condition the north church in newbury port i mabs mass wab was destroyed by fire on the of march and one man was killed bythe falling of the wall on the a fire in Gales burgh ills destroyed seven buildings and materially danl dani damaged aged several others one of them a banking establishment the sufferings of the people of kansas kangas are spoken of as being more extensive and greater than beret heretofore afore rep represented repented and in some parts of upper missouri blis Alis if reports are true there Is not a sufficiency of bread and laborers a borers cannot get employment to sustain themselves and families in consequence of which there is much suffering amo amol among i the i poor |
