Show by the eastern mail mali A terrible fire occurred in watertown NY on may 6 by which a large woolen factory was de destroyed st royed and a number of lives lost there were operators in the building at the time the fire broke out which was early discovered and all but ten tn t n or twelve made their escape before their egress from the building was prevented by the rapidity of the flames and they being in the third and fourth stories stones jumped out of the windows one or two ot of which were killed and most of them so badly burned or otherwise irl Iri jred that their lives were despaired of or A convention was held in Aur aurania aria pikes peak on the loth of april in which denver city auraria abraria Aur aria arapahoe fountain city el dorado and anal el were represent ed several resolutions were passed declaring in 0 the absolute and pressing necessity for au an immediate and adequate government for the large and mixed population in that part of kansas and recommending the organization of a state to embrace the following described territory to wit commencing at the intersection of the mor meridian idian with the 1431 parallel running west on said parallel to the iloth meridian thence south to the parallel thence east on said parallel to its intersection with the ioia loia meridian thence north to the place of beginning to be called the state of jefferson and that a convention should be held in in denver city on the first monday in june to form a constitution for the new state two papers are published there the rock mountain news neva at cherry creek and the cherry creek pioneer at denver city which are said to be creditable sheets it seems beems they save not dug up much of the dust duet yet though st james had bad taken in one hundred and fifty seven saven dollars worth in twenty days and mr aubrea two hundred and thirty three dollars tiie THE season in iowa is said to be very unfavorable for crops provisions are scarce and very high in some places not enough to last the inhabitants till harvest THE tile people of dodge count county yAfa ml are suffering buffering all the horrors of a famine A committee nas was vas recently appointed at a mass meeting of the citizens of the county held at con cord cord to examine and report the true condition of the inhabitants at an adjourned meeting a few days after wards the committee reported that they had bad visited families of these 25 were entirely destitute of the necessaries of life seventy five who ho have provisions for only 30 days and have no visible means of obtaining more thousands of acres of excellent land will lay idle the present year for want of seed for planting measure measures s were taken by the meeting above referred to to relieve as far aa as possible the wants of the sufferers THE tyge cholera is said to be making awful ravages in the tha southern part of jagau |