The Darien Canal Expedition

Reporta from the Darion expedition say that good progress is makiiig in tho hydrographic gurveya, and the final cliart of the Gulf will be a valuable eontribution to the Bureau orNavigation. Chief Engineer Barnes is still in the interior, pushing on as rapidly as possiblc over the l'aranchito route toward the "divide." On Februaiy llth Commander Selfridgemado a thrce days' trip up tho Tuyra rivi i to Pinogana. This river is over a inile wide and the tide has a rise and fn.ll of from flfteen to twenty fuet. He found that it did not narrow down uutil he passed Alligator Island, eighteea milos from the ship ; thence upward its eoursit is so winding that, while the distanco from Chepir:ina to Pinogana, traveling by boat, is about forty-five miles, astronomioal observations show that a straight line connocting the two ioints would be only about twenty-two miles long. At uight the nrimeval forests are filled with chattciing monkoys ; by day the only signs of lifo are huge alligators and horoiis. Not a hill of uiv description is met with, notcithstandingthe toot Ümt the prosent map of the country represente it a traversed by rango after range of high Tnountuins. The country is appaiently ptrfoctly lovel, but it undoubtedly has a slighS cKvution toward the interior. A severa guie sweptthrongh Kanawssd Missouri, íSuturday. Conmderabls 1(!Straotion of property is repotted at Loavciiworth and Pomeroy, Kansas, and StJoseph and Weston, Missouri. At the Latter plací; oae man was killed. Kansas Citj-, Mc, repoi-ts a woman as passing along the main street of tho towï, (omposcdly puffing a cigar, whilo hor htuband, i unM'k-looking personage, walk- ed behind, carryijig the baby. The Eñe Eailroad will on May lst reduce the funning time between Nevr Yoik and Buftalo two hours by a lightning exprese train for Chicago.