UNITED STATES.

Nelson Examiner and New Zealand Chronicle, Volume XVII, Issue 52, 30 June 1858, Page 3

UNITED STATES.

The news from the United States is of slight importance. The proceedings in Congress were uninteresting. The Senate was engaged on the bill for the admission of Minesotn. The House of Representatives was still debating the Kansas question. A ciueus of democratic members of the house had resolved to sustain the Lecompton Constitution. Private Letters from the United States camp in Utali are down to February sth. Colonel Johnson describes the Mormons as manifesting a decided intention to set up an independent government of their own, and expresses an earnest hope that supplies will be sent to him as soon as possible. A large train with supplies, together with two regiments of infantry and two of cavalry, had already left Leavenworth. for Utah. Colonel Benton was lying dangerously ill at Washington, and not expected to recover. A Washington telegram snys, General Scott has issued orders to protect the military communications, and twelve companies of troops from Kansas had been detained for the service. Accounts from Florida say, thpre is, at last, good prospects of a termination of the Indian war in that 6tate. The Virginian Legislnture had passed a bill, fixing on tlio l9t of August for the general resumption of specie paym3nt. i ' in that state. The Nim York Herald says, it i 3 indisputable that Thomas Allsop, who is charged with being implicated in the attempt on the Emperor Napoleon's life, has been in Mew York. On Friday week an exceedingly large rhinoceros was landed at the East India Docks from on board the Sutleilge, which has just arrived from Calcutta. This fine animul was safely conveyed to the warehouse of Mr. Jamrach, of Ruteliff-highwar. 1 he Patrie contains a long article on the decrease of the population in Fiance, and on the decline in the physical powers of the inhabitants. It attributes this result to the insufficient food of the working classes, and to the discredit into -which gymnastic exercises have fallen. The Napoleonien of Amiens reports that a duel has been fought at Abbeville betweeli two sub-lieutenants of the 9th Chasseurs, in which one of the parties was killed and the other seriously mounded. The fir«t emigration from Milford Haven toythe Australasian colonies will take place by the screw steamship Lord Ashley, 550 tons, 200 horse-power, which is appointed to sail from the South Wales Railway terminus, at Neyland, on the 15th May, to Auckland, New Zealand,