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Iaisscovse riik Kss Msriosr,gA IeiieF to the cd. itors of the National InselligenccF, from a cores- csng of the increase of trade and intercourse between the Western country and the territories be- yondt:-

 FoRr OsAGE, May 10, 1897.

 "The Commissioners are just setting out for two months tour in the great prairies, to finish marking out the road" to New Mexico, upon the survey and examination that completed last fal- After the return, the Commissioners will make their final and full report of the Board which will be acc companied by very complete maps and chGrts and will, presume, be minute in its details and las I hope) satisfactory and interesting in all it's results- This work should have been entirely completed and reported last year, before the meeting of Congress but has been unavoidably delayed by the very unex- pected refusal of the Mexican Government to co-op- crate promptly in the measure.

 "TO judge from the preparations making should incline to think that the trade from this section of the Union to New Mexico, must be still increasng- Several fitting out, and will be on the road in few weeks; these, am informed, larger and better equipped, and carry out more value of merchandise than any which have heretofore gone to New Mexico. l have doubt this trade will con- tinue to increase till it settles down into well ganized and quite important branch of commerce, profitable to all concerned in it, and we'll worthy of the protection and fostering of the General Gov ernment, which doubt not it will receive in due time.o

 The Yearly Meeting of Friends commenced at Portsmouth, N. H. on Saturday, and was held on Sunday, at Newport, where it continued until We'd nesday. Anna Braithwaite and other celebrated Friends from England, attended the meeting.

 A Rev. gentleman (says the Providence Journal who has statedIy preached in this town to a large congregation for the last thnysx years has during that period, united in marriage 1Ge0 persons.

 The "Banksan Medal" of the London Horti- cultural society has been awarded to gentleman of Albany for barrel of American apples, embracing twenty varieties, forwarded to the society last winter Col. Leavenworth passed through Franklin, Missou- ri, on the 29th, of April, his way to the River Platte, to examine and fix place for military cantonment and the 1st of May four companies of United States Infantry arrived at Franklin, by water and proceeded on to join him.