Jasper Banner, Volume 2, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 March 1855 — What Russia has been Doing. [ARTICLE]

What Russia has been Doing.

Russia means to be wide awake to her great interest, even with a disastrous war on her hands. According to recent account*, she ha* taken advantage of the Chinese rebellion to obtain from the imperial government a treaty, yielding to her the navigation of the A moor, and she has already converted that permission into absolute possession of the whole course of the river and an enormous tract of country about 1000 miles in length, and is in some parts as much as 500 in breadth, which gives her access to the Pacific Ocean in temperate climates. Cannon and stores are already carried down the Amoor by steamboats, and from its mouth to the Russian possessions in America; and it may at no distant day be one of the great channels of European and Asiatic commerce, for the water communication between the Baltic and the Caspian has long been complete, and, according to Cottrell, only 400 verses, or 200 miles, additional canal will be required to connect the Pacific with the Caspian. — The progress of a far reaching and enterprising nation like tfius is not easily to be stopped. It gives evidence of watchful vigor, which will accomplish its destiny, no matter what opposition it encounters. j• :Mr , i i —i....—— g^MgEgCg^A.letter from Accapulco, February ffflfTßUht er att, says that Alverez, the ireVOla* tionary chief, had been honored with a triumphant entry into Acapulco, the road from the garitia to the plaza, a distance of one league, being lined with soldiers, and adorned with arches bearing such inscriptions as “Liberty and Justice ” The writer adds "tftsr tint few dayr&imrr -in*tended to leave for the capital, in command of an army of 5000 men, with Comonfort and the tivo Morenos as Brigadiers. Francis B. Moreno is. the General who. recently, with his , whole brigade of nine regiments, 1000 men of government troops, pronounced against Santa Anna. — When the army reaches Chilpancingo it is to be reinforced by the addition of 7000 from the State of Michoacan. Gnamving withina few leagues of the capital they are to proclaim Alvarez President of the Republic, pro tem. The Population or Kansas.— -It was an oft repeated prediction during the late contest that Kansas would be filled up with emigrants from Missouri and other slave States and thus inevitably become a slave State. — A recent census shows that at least nine-tenths of its population is from the free States. At the city of Lawrence, a census just taken shows that, of a total population of 375, there are 334’ natives of the Union, from the following States: Massachusetts 99, New York 59, Pennsylvania 38, Ohio 25, lowa 19, Missouri 16.— Delphi Times.

DC/ 3 Advices from Havana to the 24th ult., received at New York by the steamer Empire City, say that the city was then filled with volunteer troops. She brings advices however, that the Captain General had somewhat qalified his decree placing the port in a state ofblocade, by informing the consuls that it was directed not against merchant ships, but against vessels carrying arms and having large numbers of men on board. As we reported by the Crescent City, four persons who had volunteered as soldiers w ere disarmed and banished the island. They came to the United States.

Short Measures —The severest commentary on the honesty of New York retailers is to be found in the recent report of the officer who examines weights and measures, by which it appears that out of 1397 dry measures examined during the last year, only 317 were found correct while of all the wet measures examined, two-thirds were found to bes incorrect. This would scarcely be credible, were it not an official fact. Great Hunting. —A party of Sioux Indians who recently went on a hunt along the east side of file Mississippi river and in the neighborhood of Rice Lake, Minnesota territory, killed in one mbntk five hundred deer, and a very large number of smaller game. This was not on the proper hunting ground of the Sioux, but they asked and received permission to hunt there from Governor Gorman. During the hunt they encountered a party of their inveterate enemies,, the Chippewas, and had a fight, in which several Sioux were wounded and scalped.

California Legislature had balloted, at the last advices, no less than thirty-eight times unsuccessfully for a United States Senator, and flneJly adjoumcd sine die... .