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News of the Week. The steamship Persia arrived on the morning of the 11th at New York. News unimportant. The new paying-out machine for laying the Telegraph cable is perfectly satisfactory. The Agamemnon had 1260, and the Niagara 990 miles of the cable on board. Russia has decided to construct three lines of Railway between the Black and Caspian Seas. Affairs in India are in a very unsettled state. There being much fighting and great loss of men on the part of the rebels. Lord Elgin will take immediate steps to put an end to the Coolie traffic. Reports of Liverpool Market, May 1st, shows a firmness in Cotton and Groceries, but no great change in flour or grain. The Mormons a equipping companies to cut off supplies and harrass the troops now on the march for Utah. A deadful accident occurred on the N. Y. Central R. R. on the morning of the 11th by the crushing of a bridge over the Sanquoit creck, near Whitesboro Eight or ten persons are already dead, and forty or more injured some fatally. The three volunteer Regiments for the Utah service numbering 2,600 men will cost the Government something over $4,300,000 per year. On Monday they 10th the boiler belonging to the Illinois stone Company on wells St. Chicago, exploded, killing the engineer, and badly wounding several other persons. The steamship Arabia sailed from New York on the 12, with 183 passengers, and $458,000 in specic. The American steamer Mobile reports having been fired into with rifles, by the British war steamer Styx when off Key West, and afterwards searched. The schooner Star of the North left Detroit on the 12th with cargo for Liverpool. Rev. W. H. Lordof Montpelier Vt., now receivinga salary of $1500,has declined a call of $4030 to Cincinnati. There is a press of emigration to California beyond the capacity of the steamers now running the Empire City took out 193 paying passengers. Louis Napoleon completed his 50th year on April 20th. The Bank of Central New York, Utica, has resumed business. It is said that an average of only about two and a half words per minute, can be transmitted through entire length of the Atlantic cable, only about one tenth as fast as the overland lines. If the project proves successful, it will not begin to do the business, and others will be speedily laid. The peaches and strawberries have been killed by frost in New Jersey. An officer of the steamer Georgetown writes from Bombay, that there it is considered a disgrace for children to be unmarried at the age of five years, and a boy unmarried at six is an old bachelor. Children are married by their parents when mere infants. There are seventy six banks in Connecticut with an aggregate capital of $20,608,723. Minnesota is a state, the bill for her admission having passed both houses, and her Senators and Representatives admitted to their seats. The Star of the West, from Aspinwall arrived in New York on the 13th, with California Mails of April 20th, and over $1,600,000 in specie, and 500 passengers. Business at San Fancisco, dull, mining and agricultural prospects extremely flattering. Forrest City, Sierra Co. was burned April 10th, loss $180,000. The Cal. Legislature has passed a law prohibiting any business on the Sabbath, excepting Hotels, Restaurants, Drug stores and stables. The religious revival had commenced in San Fancisco. The few remaining Mormons in Carson Yalley were preparing to leave for Salt Lake. There is some talk of another revolution at Bogota. The brig Robt. Wing arrived in Boston on the 13th, and reports that off Iroqua, a British cruiser fired upon her, and then sent a boat along side and examined the brigs papers. The crevasse at New Orleans was abandoned on the 12th the water still rising. Mayor Tieman is trying to stop the sale of "swill milk" in N.Y. City, so called from its being produced from cows fed on swill from distilleries. The cows are all badly diseased, and more than one half the deaths of children in the city, are attributed to the use of this unwholesone milk. It is proposed by soveral of the European Powers who make use of Prof. Morse's Telegraph, to give him $100,000, as a bonus for his discoveries in electric communication. A mammoth tent isbeing used in Philadelphia for holding religious meetings in which will seat some 5000 persons. It is stated by the New York Times that the bridge, the giving way of which caused such a frightful loss of life in the recent Railroad accident had been unsafe for some time, as the timbers were old and rotten, the officers of the Road had been informed of the fact, sometime previous, but continued to run trains across it, until two being upon it at once, it gave away. Police-S. W. CARPENTER, Esq., who may be styled the Prefect of the Dubuque Police,
