and New Hampshire have started for the Northern Eldorado.

Several of the Western States have been visited by violent and
destructive tornadoes. In the city of St. Louis, upwards of one hundred
buildings were injured. The regions about Louisville, Ky., and
Pittsburg, also suffered severely. During the last week in May an
immense amount of rain fell in the Northern part of Illinois; occasional
great freshets in all the rivers. The flood was greater than had been
known for many years; the mill-dams and mills were swept away, and a
great amount of property damaged. Two viaducts on the Indiana Canal were
entirely destroyed. The grain crops of the Middle and Western States
promise an abundant harvest. The cotton crop in South Carolina, the
northern part of Georgia and the Tennessee Valley, has been considerably
injured by the coldness of the season.

A serious riot occurred at Hoboken, near New-York, on Monday, the 26th
of May. It was the holiday of Pentecost, and the German residents of the
city, to the number of near ten thousand, crossed the Hudson to
celebrate the day according to their national customs. They were beset
in the afternoon by a company of rowdies, between whom and a German
society of gymnasts an altercation arose, resulting in a general fight,
in the course of which the Germans were grossly injured by their
antagonists. Two persons were killed, and forty or fifty badly wounded.
The rowdies all escaped, and of fifty Germans who were arrested, only
ten were found to have participated in the affray. The riot, after
lasting till 9 o'clock at night, was finally quelled by calling out the
military. The inhabitants of Hoboken have organized a company for the
prevention of disorder in future.

During the month of May Jenny Lind gave fourteen concerts in New-York,
without any diminution of her wonderful success, the last concert
realizing upwards of $18,000. At the close, the termination of her
contract with Mr. Barnum, at the hundredth concert, was announced. On
giving her first concert at Philadelphia, however, a new agreement was
made, by which the contract was at once broken off, Miss Lind having
then sung ninety-three times, on condition of her forfeiting the sum of
$25,000. The concerts in Philadelphia, given on her own account, were
very successful.

Several large defalcations in public officers have lately come to light.
The Postmaster of Macon, Ga., failed for the sum of $50,000, part of
which was the