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# Items. Connecticut. -The school fund of Connecticut now amounts to $1,929,738 60. U. S. Revenue.--The U. S. Revenue for the first quarter of the year 1834, is $1,895,000 less than in the first quarter of 1824. The New-York Courier says-A private letter to a friend of ours, estimates the number of persons killed at Lyons at 1200; 500 in one church, 300 in another, and the remainder believed to amount to 400. In New-York, two young men arrested for causing disturbance in the Methodist Episcopal Church, in Allen-street, were fined $5 each. Among the Orators at the recent Anti-Slavery Convention in Boston, we notice the name of the Rev. Mr. Choules, late of this town. The Kentucky Giant is showing himself in Providence. He now weighs about six hundred pounds. Thirty Thousand Extra Copies of the Bank In-vestigating Committee's Report, and that of the Minority, has been ordered to be printed, by the House of Representatives. The Legislature of Connecticut have passed a string of Resolutions disapproving of the removal of the Deposites, &c. by a large majority. The extreme pressure on the money market, which has been intermitted for some weeks, is again in full force in Boston. Locusts. The Locusts have made their appearance at the south, in great numbers. A woman was frozen to death in Schoharie, co. N. Y., on Thursday, 15th May inst. She was going from one dwelling to another, during the snow storm, became chilled, stopped on the road, and perished! The passengers in the stage, passing through the same country, were frequently invited to turn out, and help the driver get through the snow drifts. A Letter from Baltimore says "Gen. Jackson avowed to a friend on Saturday, that NOTHING should induce him to consent to ANY BANK; and that he should run for a third-term, rather than risk the establishment of ANY during his life.-Phil. Inq. There are in the whole world, 126 Institutions in which deaf mutes are instructed. The oldest was established in Paris in 1760. There are six in the U. S.; the first was established in Hartford, in 1816. Ex-President Madison, has recently been very dangerously ill, but at the last accounts he was gradually recovering. The assessment valuation of the whole amount of property in the city of Washington, real and personal, at the close of the last year, was within a fraction of eight millions of dollars. The Mechanics' Bank, at Patterson, N. Jersey, stopped payment, and closed its doors on Friday last. We are informed, says the Mercantile Advertiser, that there are not more than seventeen thousand dollars of its bills, in circulation. Mr. Stone, the accomplished author of Metamora, was found drowned at Philadelphia, on Tuesday of last week. He was in a state of mental alienation from intense study. We noticed by the Baltimore papers, the death of master commandant Wm. L. Gordon, of the U. S. Navy. His funeral took place on Tuesday, of last week, with naval and military honors. It is proposed to nominate Gulian C. Verplanck, for Governor, at the approaching election in New York. Mr. speaker Stevenson, resigned his seat in Congress on Monday last. It is said there are a number of candidates for the speaker's chair. At Elmira, N. Y. the Whig town officers have been elected by a majority of 26-last year, the Jackson ticket was elected by a majority of 300. Good. It is said that Mr. Cooper is now engaged upon a work which will probably be entitled "A comparative View of France and the U. States. The Senate did not act upon the Resolution from the House of Representatives, fixing a day for the Adjournment of Congress, on Friday last.
