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By the arrival of the Manhattan from Havana, we have news from the City of Mexico to the twenty-fourth of June, together with the dates from Vera Cruz to the twenty-eighth ultimo. A most important item of news is theannouncement that a decree was about to be issued ceding Sinaloa, Durange and Sonora to France to secure the debt due to that country. The health of Vera Cruz was good. The American emigration scheme is said to be a failure, but this may be deemed as not definitely settled. Reports from Mexico are very contradictory. Another light draft monitor, the Nauset, built in East Boston by Mr. Donald McKay, is now finished and accepted by the Navy Department. She is two hundred and twenty-five feet long, forty-five wide, seven feet ten inches deep, and draws six feet six inches of water. The hull is of iron and the armour is backed by white oak; the turret and pilot-house are of iron ten inches thick; the turret is twenty feet in diameter inside and nine feet high, and contains two heavy guns. There were more than one hundred persons prostrated by sunstroke in Cincinnati and vicinity on the fourth of July. Several cases proved fatal. The mercury marked one hundred degrees in the shade. Lewis T. Stoddard, a Boston broker, was accidentally drowned in a stream near that city on Thursday. The Louisville Journal says that H. C. Burnett, formerly member of Con. gress from the First Kentucky District, and afterwards a member of the rebel Congress, was arrested four days ago at Hopkinsville, by order of the Secretary of War. He was taken to Louisville, where he has been turned over to the civil authorities, to be tried for high treason. He is now awaiting action in his case. A Missouri paper says there is a young lady in Henry County, in that State, not yet sixteen, who is this year cultivating sixteen acres of corn. She does all the necessary work, Including plowing. She has undertaken this piece of work to obtain money with which to educate herself. Captain Maury, formerly of the Washington Observatory, and recently engaged in placing torpedoes in Southern waters, is in the City of Mexico. Middletown, Connecticut, is excited over a regular " elopement, with the cruel parents, hasty moonlight ride, and all the other proper adjuncts. The fleeing pair have not yet been overtaken. The names are John Vinton, nineteen years old, and Anna Brainard, an impulsivelittle girl of fifteen. The New Hampshire Legislature adjourned on Saturday, after taxing all incomes, not already taxed, twenty-five per centum. The Bridgeport, Connecticut, Farmer says, Colonel Ira Gregory is lying very low of a disease called the dry mortification, which, commencing in one of his toes, has extended through his body. Two other persons there are similarly afflicted. Count Albert de Revel has, according to a Parisian correspondent of the Athenseum, been left two thousand pounds a year by an eccentric uncle, on the singular condition that, within two years, he shall marry a tall, slim lady, of harmonious proportions,' withlong and thick.golden hair. She must have an open forehead, blue eyes, brilliant white skin, a well-made nose, a small mouth, and she is to be full of grace, and her character is to be slightly shaded with a poetic languor. The White Mountain Bank, Lancaster, New Hampshire, has suspended of payment, and its assets are now in the hands of an assignee. The grand Jury of Brooks county, Virginia have found indictments for he treason against a number of returned Confederates. It is claimed that theyare be guilty of treason against the State of West Virginia. At Newbern, N. C., factories are to be established for improved processes for producing tar, turpentine, oil and pyroligneous acid from light-wood. of North Carolina is rapidly filling up with emigrants from the North who wish to buy land. Governor Holden has sent a commissioner to Washington to arrange matters connected with confiscation, so as to make sales of land easier than they are at present. A Queene Anne gun, two hundred and thirty-five years of age, which went through the revolution and the war of eighteen hundred and twelve, was fired by Arch Young at the Van Renssalear of Mansion, at Albany, on the Fourth of July morning. It was fired two years ago by the same gunner, both times at the request of old Mr. Van Rensselaer. With these exceptions, it has not been fired since the war of eighteen hundred Id and twelve. Negroes are making two and three dollars a day in North Carolina, by washing the waste or trailings of the gold mines there. Thousands of tons of gold-bearing dust and rock are on the surface near the mines. Newbern, North Carolina, is rapidly increasing in populatian. Many Northern business men are there, engaging in profitable enterprises. The city gates of Quebec have neve been without guards since its capturl from the French by General Wolf unti last Thursday week, when they were permanently withdrawn. The Arab girls who came to see Napoleon in Algiers wore nosegays in their ears. The election in Petersburg, Virginia, tak place on the 18th instant. General Hatch, commanding the distriet of Charleston, South Carolina, has learned that some of the planters in their
