MATTERS AND THINGS IN GENERAL.
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 Extract of a letter from the Agent of the New forl1 Underwriters, dated New-Or- leaus, 1lth June, 1885.

 The steamboat which was chartered d to save the cargo of the Wm. Parsons, lost on the Arkansas river. has returned viii. all the goods that could be saved, which did not amount to one-half, as the river was rising fast. The gross sales at auc- ton amounted to $ls,475 IS; about S3l,- GOO insured on cargo in New-York, and about $21,000 insured on cargo in New Orleans.

 The Democratic Herald. Van Ruren paper, gives up all hope of Van Bnren get ting the vote of Pennsylvania, and the Penn sylFanian admits that the Herald has good ground for entertaining such an opinion This looks rather blue for the New Yorker: if that State goes against him, he will be beat to moral certainty. And We believe 1t wil-Pennsylvania and New York are not very apt to pull together

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