| Show summary of news by aay eastern mail the te bastir eastern n mall mail arrived on saturday evening by which new york and other eastern exchanges to the and from the frontiers to the of february were received all the principal items of news having been anticipated by the telegraphic and pony dispatches the arrival cannot so far as relates to the exciting t topics of the day be considered very important but on examination a few matters recorded were deemed of sufficient interest to merit publication the people of the new state of kansas if one half the reports concerning their destitution be true are in a most deplorable condition that their crops were light and of little ele eie value in consequence of the drouth there is ia no doubt and it seems from reports thit that that they are an exceedingly poor people having neither money nor property wherewith to buy provisions and clothing and that at least fifty thousand persons about one half the reported population of the state aro are depending upon charity not only for their daily bread but bid for clothing co thing and other necessaries of life under I 1 buch ench circumstances the people of ka kansas ansas certainly are but illy prepared to defray the expenses of government that will accrue under their new state organization famine is an awful scourge wherever it exists and if the drouth that prevailed in kansas last summer had extended over the whole coun country iry the distress of the people judging 0 0 from the effects produced by the non fallins falling of rain on a few thousand square miles milea of sparsely settled territory would have been great indeed the secessionists and anti secessionists continued up to latest dates to burn powder profusely on the occurrence of every event that favored their political views but the number of guns considered to express their joyousness on buch such occasions has been exceedingly various when one for each state has been fined fired by unionist thirty four have been considered appropriate and necessary ces sary while the secessionists have been of the opinion that from six to fo fifteen were all that were required for the purpose at baltimore on the ath of february a terrific gale from the northwest unroofed thirty houses blew town down walls walis and chimneys and uprooted trees the one water in the harbor lowered three feet under the operation of the wind the storm was severe at philadelphia great damage was done to the telegraph wires and the 0 general destruction of proper property is ie reported to have been heen very great at montreal C E there was a tremendous snow storm blockading all the railroads railroad i the storm was very extensive followed by excessive cold as indicated by the weather reports on jan ath tha mhd thermometer at cambridge d 4 g e observatory was down to 19 degrees below aero at boston 14 degrees at concord and other places in N H it varied from 20 to 35 deg at hanover N H at 1 pm of the ath the thermometer stood at 37 above and at 7 next morning 32 below zero on the morning of the ath at oswego the ther moin morn t et eter er stood at 23 at toronto 12 ottawa city 2 montreal 32 quebec 30 prescott 5 og 1 dens burgh 8 evans mills 43 watertown 40 fulton 26 and at honses point 35 de grees below zero it was the coldest day of the season and reported to have been the coldest for years hundreds of persons were frozen more or less and many fatally there was a fire at ohio february ath destroying eleven buildings including bt eeles steeles banking house and the american amer an ex press office loss ap oooo john McKInn McKin mckinney ney ncy 4 late treasurer of michigan was arrested on the ath of february charged with embezzlement of moneys belonging to the state and held heid in the bum sum of to appear for examination some fiend placed an infernal machine or on a widow sill of th ehouse of mr Ho hoevler evIer evler a well known citizen of lawrenceville pa on the night of the lith of february and fired it oft off by means of a slow match the whole front of the buil bult building dim din was shattered by the explosion which was as loud as the discharge of a cannon several bullets struck in different p parts arts of the room in which the family were bie sie sleeping leeping s but all miraculously escaped injury there was no clue to the perpetrator of the fiendish act A train of government wagons p passed assed through st joseph on the of february en route for laramie the first westward bound train tram of the season the roads were exceedingly muddy i |
