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CONTENTS OF THIS HTJMBEB. 



Thomcry Sj-srcm of I-runlnc w>d Tramln* ll,e Vine, 

 UllwiraUdJ .- 



Tlir Dairy r-, drain tiroiiBg on thePralriet 



Biansfor FalieuJug Bogs 



F i^Hir'.,' ) EAv..>c<.!..Jut^re.. . . """""!;""!!!! 



Unkind Ctieese from a Few Cons 



Swal Spirit ■ ■'!>., /V,....- .v..,„t. Winter Borley: 



FaUenIng Animals; Linseed Cake for Heifers.. 



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l.iv Hi. 1'iiiL-. liuuvia ttbt.il itnJ Avncullurul Fair; 



UORTICULTDRAt. 



Pruning and Tralnln B the Vine-No. I. [Five Illustra- 

 tion.) 



Apple and Cherry OrafU; Season for Planttoir Ever- 

 green Hedges; Apple Roots for Qrftnlns~QnQln| F.i 



Love of Gardening Among the Poor 



BolUug QC Pota e ice t 



CHOICE MI9CELLANY. 



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8ABBiTH MUSINGS. 



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LIST OF NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. 



ROCHESTER, N. T., DECEMBER ::, 



DOMESTIC NEWS. 



Matters at Washington. 



Is consequence of the recent occurrences on the 

 frontier, the suggestion has been made to the 

 Liberal Government of Mexico, from a distinguish- 

 ed quarter, that immediate steps be taken with a 

 view of enleriog into an agreement or treaty with 

 the Government of the United States for tbe pun- 

 ishment of such outlaws as Cortinas and his men, 

 Tbe main feature of tbe agreement beiDg to treat 

 offences committed on either side of the Rio GraDdfl 

 as against tbe pence of both Republics. T3b 

 parties to be tned and punished according to the 

 laws of the country in which they may be arrested. 



The Secretary of War on tbe 2Stb ult., received 

 the following dispatch from Lieot. Gen. Scott, 

 dated Straits of Fuea, and sent by way of Leaven- 

 worth:— "Two days ago I dispatched from Fort 

 TownBend a communication to Gov. Douglass, 

 proposing a temporary adjustment of the existing 

 difficulties, on the basis suggested by the Presi- 

 dent in his instructions to me. There has been 

 no answer yet, but there is no doubt the proposi- 

 tion will be accepted. Everything is tranquil in 

 these islands." 



The number of members of Congress in the city 

 isdmly increasing. The organization of the House 

 of Representatives is with them the prominent 

 topic of conversation and concern. 



The Treasurer's statement shows thai the re- 

 ceipts for the week ending on Monday week were 

 $366,000. Tbe amount of the drafts paid was 

 $798,000, and drafts issued $,1,280,000. The amount 

 subject to draft is $V^7,uiju. The increase over 



Personal and 



A Salt Lake City paper nominates Gen. Sam 

 Houston as tbe Mormon candidate for tbe Presi- 

 dency in 1860. 



Sevatok SOWXBB is about to resign his seat in 

 the United States Senate, and, it ib said, will 

 marry and reside in England. 



Hox. Fen.nzr Fsnausoir, formerly Chief Justice 

 of Nebraska, and delegate to Congress from that 

 Territory, died of paralysis on the 11th ult. Tbe 

 Nebraska Republican says: — "It is a remarkable 

 fact that of the eight original appointees to office 

 in Nebraska by President Pierce, not one of them 

 is now in office, and only I'uur ot them are now 

 living. Only two of them (Geo. Eustabrook and 

 A. R. Gilmore. Esq.,) now reside in the Territory. 

 Gov. Burt, the first Governor, died at Bellevuc 

 soon after reaching the Territory. Mursbal Doyle 

 died suddenly from a fall down a flight of steps in 



je Bank iuthe winter of I 

 retary Cuming died a year and n half ago in this 

 city, and now Judge Ferguson Is added to the list 



Teb celebrated trapper and guide, Kit Carson, 

 ooc of tbe noblest of our bravo frontiersmen, died 

 recently at Taos, iu New Mexico, !I 6 was a native 

 of Madison Co., Ivy., and would have completed 

 bis fiftieth year bad be lived to the 24tb , 

 December next. While ho was i 



ived to the Territory of Missouri, 



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:nt. As the borders of civilization e 

 e gradually withdrew farther and forth 

 settlements preferring the haunts of tl 





he fell in with Col. Fremont, 

 a guide to that explorer, and 

 others of hia clasfl, have won for him a national 

 reputation. In 1S4T be was sent to Washington 

 as bearer of dispatches, and received an appoint- 

 ment of Lieutenant iu the rifle corps of the United 

 States Army. Six years later be drove fl,C0O sheep 

 to California, for the successful execution of 

 which difficult undertaking he was rewarded 

 With tbe post of Indian Agent at Taos, the place 

 of his death. 



Jeitbbson Co., in this State, has the honor of 

 having furnished several of the Western States 

 with Governors. We believe that Gov. Matteson, 

 of 111., Gov. Farwell, of Wis., Gov. Wood, ol O , 

 and the present Goveroor, (late U. S. Senate 

 Petit, of Nebraska, were all nalivesof that counl 

 Oneida may also put in a cluim for similar honoi 

 since Judge Miller and Hon. Norman Todd, both 

 from Oneida Co., in this Stale, are named i 

 same lime as candidates lot the Gubernatorial 

 i Illinois. 



broken do 





3,796. Only four Counties remain to be heard 

 from, aud their vote 13 too small to materiallj 

 vary tbe result. 



Tub Newark Advertiser gives the official vote 01 

 New Jersey at the recent electiou, os follows :— 

 Olden, (Opp.) 53,367, Wright, (Dem.) 51,738. 

 Olden's majority, 1,629. 



Tub St. Paul Minnesotian publishes full returns 

 of the recent election, from all the Counties. They 

 show a Republican majority of 8,803 for Govei 

 Ramsey. 



Tuk contestants for seats in CoDgress are un 

 ally numerous, as is shown by the following 

 prepared by tbe N. V. Tribune : 





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Miguel A. Otero, N, Me.t. Henry M. Walts. 



Taking the difficult question of organization 

 and the settlement of these claims, together wit! 

 all the other sources of difficulty, we may antici 

 pate a stormy session of Congress. 

 The official vote of New Yoik gives the follow 

 g result— the vote of each candidate, and thi 

 majority, as taken from the returns at the Secre 

 tary of State's office, by the Albany Argus : 



News Paragraphs. 



Tbe city of Brooklyn proposes to lay out a chain 

 of five magnificent parks, connected by a broad 

 macadamized avenue, forming, when completed, 

 a drive of twelve miles, which will challenge tbe 

 world for its equal in magnificence. 



The Pittsueld (Mass.) Sun states "that A. W. 

 Richardson & Co , of North Adams, took one 

 hundred and sixty-two pounds of sand from a 

 bale of wool they purchased last week for fifteen 



Tbe Board of Underwriters of New Orleans 

 have offered a reward of three thousand dollars 

 for every apprehension and conviction of an incen- 

 diary during the next twelve months. 



Tue Massachusetts House of Representatives 

 has abolished the provision of law authorizing 

 Hogging in the State Prison. Mr. Goodwin, of 

 Lowell, who is chairman of tbe Board of Inspec- 

 tors of the Prison, stated that not a blow bad been 

 inflicted there for nearly three years. 



Gbobge Bower, a resident of Hutnmelstowo, 

 Pa., having a very large wart on one of his hands, 

 was induced to cut it out, and apply arsenic to 

 destroy tbe roots. He did so on Monday, and 

 died from the effects on the Wednesday following. 

 g lady passed through Cincinnati last 

 her way to St. Louis, whither she had 

 been forwarded by express. She was from Paris. 



bad placed her in charge of an express messenger. 

 Tbe " way bill" was made out in due form and the 

 charges paid as per tariff. The messenger de- 

 care of 



Qbhbhal Tuoii. 

 knee-high to a grassh 

 r P. T. Hi 



■ported 







, ivhu, althfujgb Uirdy 

 r, made a largo fortune 

 nog one for himself, is 

 ile bioiMjlf in weJli.uk 



a lady of youth and beauty. The 



her height, and it is variously stated 

 six, and six feet three, 

 isuehusetts Senate has adopted an 

 to the law, which removes the dis- 

 ability to receive the testimony of atheists in 

 aurts of law. The amendment provides that 

 every person not a believer in any religion 

 shall be required to testify truly under pains and 

 penalties of perjury." To this, an amendment 

 adopted as follows; "And the evidence of 





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wild region his youth and manhood 



may be received to affect credibility 



The latter clause of the amendment was adopted 



tote of 10 to 7. The vote upon the amend- 

 as amended, was 18 to IB, and it was 

 adopted by tho casting vote of the President. 



t amount of grain afloat upon the upper 

 lakes for Oswego, up to tbe Ifttesl 

 400,000 bushels wheat, 186,000 bushels corn, and 

 65,000 bushels barley. This does not include the 

 quantity to come from 0*0*4*. 



A pobxion ol the bridge across White river, 

 opposite West Hartford, VI , from the pier to tbe | 



the village side of the 

 la-<t week by a drove of ca 

 crossing it, and 16 head of cattle fell with the 

 bridge, from 15 to 20 fee', upon the rocks below, 

 without killing one or even breaking a limb. 



The following eight stales have no iron works : 

 —Mississippi, Louisiana, Florida, Texas, Iowa, 

 Minnesota, California and Oregon. There are in 

 the United States 1,545 works, $32 furnaces, 4SS 

 forges, and 886 rolling mills, which produce 

 annually aboat 300,000 tons of iron, the value of 

 which, in an ordinary year, is fifty millions of 

 dollars. 



It is rumored that the fuilure of John A. 

 Washington, with a half a million of liabilities 

 incumbering the Mt. Vernon estate, will prevent 

 him from transferring the property with a good 

 title. 



A tavern keeper named I'rangley, living in the 

 town of Williams, near London, C. W., on the 

 Grand Trunk Railway, has been indicted for man- 

 slaughter, because a man was sold liquor where- 

 with he got drunk, and going home, fell off u 

 railroad bridge and was drowned. The man 

 Prangley, while he owned the tavern and the 

 liquor, was some thirty miles distant at the time 

 tbe liquor was sold. 



A patent mediciue agent named Carr, commit- 

 ted suicide a few days since, in Ohio, by poisoning 

 himself with arsenic. He might have accom- 

 plished Lis intention quite as well by taking his 

 own compound. 



Tub CANAnuN Seat of Gov bush est.— The 

 Seat of Government for Canada seems to be 

 established at Ottawa City, beyond peradventure, 

 at last, as a contract has been awarded for the 

 erection of tbe Parliamentary and Departmental 

 Buildings. It is taken by Mr. McGreevy, of 



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will be largely increased as the buildings ap- 

 proach completion. The appropriation made 

 originally wus $800,000, and this contract is 

 lower than was anticipated. 



Ouit AnoPTEn Citizens. — Apropos of the 

 Harper's Ferry outbreak, the Winchester Virgi- 

 nian says: — "It is worthy of remark, that, though 

 the Abolitionists had been B whole year plotting 

 the insurrection at Harper's Ferry, they were 

 unable to enlist a single foreign-born citizen in 

 their ranks; not one was fouud among them to 

 share their treason against their race and nation. 

 An Irishman (the keeper of the bridge) was the 

 first to offer them resistance— an Irishman was 

 the second man they killed, while he had his rifle 

 drawn to shoot — and the lust man they killed was 

 ayoung and gallant Irishman (the marine.)" 



What Job* Mitcoell Expects.— John Mitchell 

 writes a second letter of his series from Paris to 

 the Irishman, counselling the "nationalists" of 

 Ireland "to be prepared." He expects ere long to 

 see Gibraltar, as the key of the Mediterranean, and 

 Sun Juan, as the key of the Columbian Archipel- 

 ago, wrested from "tbe swindler and usurer of 

 nations," England; then be adds, on behalf of his 

 brother " Celts ": — " Happy if we can but prepare 

 ourselves to rise to our own feet, and stand erect 

 upon our own soil, when the felonious gripe is 

 loosened from our throats." 



person who was recently al- 

 .■count of a disability incurred 

 and supposed to be of a per- 

 manent character, has informed the Pension Office 

 that he is happily restored to health, and t 

 fore relinquishes his claim to the beneficence of 

 the government. A similar instance has n 

 curred tor many yeors. 



lowed a peusi 



FOEEIGN HEWS. 



GnEAT BaiTAis.-Sir G. C. Lewis, at the Lord 

 Mayor's banquet, said that no final proportion 

 had yet been mtde to England for a Congress. 

 When one should he received the Ministry would 

 deliberate on its acceptance on the understanding 

 that tbe Italians ore not to he coerced. 



Two war steameis uud four gunboats had left 

 England for Chins, 



Capt. Pctrie, of the steamship City of Washing- 

 ton, had been formally presented with a gold 

 chronometer and chain from the President of the 

 United States, for services rendered to the crew of 

 the ship Grey Oak, of New York. 



France.— Tbe three treaties were finally signed 



at Zurich 

 departed 1 



on the 10th, and t 

 m the 12th. It w. 

 nted to take 108J 



s Plenipotenui 

 said that Austria 

 '),000 francs from 

 )0 previously de- 



France, instead of 104, 

 manded. 



The Moniteur, in announcing tbe signing of the 

 treaties, says that France and Austria agreed to 

 promote the meeting of a Congress. 



A circular by Couut Walewaki announces that 

 France has demanded from Sardinia, tiu.OuO.uOi.'C 

 for expenses of the late war. The circular also 

 says that the French government has received 

 assurances that the Pope was only waiting for an 

 opportuue moment to make public certain reforms 

 by which the government of the clergy would be 

 replaced by a government generally composed of 

 tbe laity, which would give to the country better 

 guaranties for the administration of justice and 

 for the control of the public finances, by means of 

 an Assembly elected by the people. 



The cholera among the French troops, in Africa, 

 is said to be abating. 



The Bank of France had lost nearly 19,000,000 

 of francs iu cases during the month. 



Italy.— Tuscany has followed the example of 

 tbe other States of Central Italy, and conferred 

 the Regency upon the Prince of Carignan. 



The Kiug of Sardinia, under tbe pressure of 

 Fronce, refused to grant Carignan permission to 

 accept the Regency. 



Spain. — The affair between Spain and Morocco 

 W03 unchanged, though it was reported that the 

 Sultan had empowered his brother to grant tbe 

 demands of Spain. 



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Clippings from Foreign Journal*. 



As association of the members of the clergy in 

 England have published sn address in which they 

 pledge themselves to a total abstinence from the 



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From the Pacific Side. 



The Overland Mail of Oct. Cist arrived at 

 Louis on the 22d ult. There was unusual 1 



tion of Railroad projects in Cali'ornia, and strong 

 appeals were being made to capitalists for aid. 

 The overland emigration by the Central Route, il 

 is stated by competent parties, will reach 30,000 

 and but little sickness but occurred, and tbe gold 

 and silver discoveries in Washoe Valley and 

 Walker River have created a great demand for 

 laborers. ' 



Dates from Portland, Oregon, are to Oct. 27th, 

 and from Victoria to the li7th. A special corres- 

 pondent of the Alta California, who accompanied 

 Gen. Scott on bis trip to the Northwest, says that 

 the General arrived at Port TowDsend on the 851 

 aud would immediately establish his beadquartt 

 on board the U. S. steamer Massachusetts. 



Commissioner Campbell, expected overland from 

 Colvdle, had been directed to join the Commission 

 at San Juan. No plan of action has yet been de- 

 cided upon by General Scott. 



The Overland Express brought dispatches from 

 the British Consul at San Francisco to Lord 

 Lyons, at Washington ; and also a communication, 

 franked by Gen. Scott, and addressed to the Com- 

 manding officer at Fort Leavenworth, stating that 

 the linlibh have withdrawn all their forces from 

 San Juan, with the exception of tho steamer 

 Satellite. 



Advices from Arizona state that Capt.Ewell had 

 left Fort Buchanan for Sonort, under orders from 

 the Secretary of War, to call on Governor Pes- 

 chiera and protest 111 tbe uanio of the United States 

 Government, against the expulsion of Captain 

 Storie's parly audof other American citizens from 

 that State. 



It is said that Peschiera has recently expressed 

 a strong desire for the formation of Emigration 

 Colonies in tbe United States, for tbe purpose of 



ducing a general emigration into Souora. 



The Baltic, from Aspinwall the lSth, arrived at 



ew York, Nov. 87. She brought six hundred 



id lifty passengers, and upwordsof $1,700,000 in 



ensure. The Baltic brings over as freight one 



Italy aud the South of France. 

 The Governor has ordered an election for Dec. 



lOlu, to till tbe vacancy iu the State Senate. This 

 ivill be au exciting election, as it involves the 

 tuestion whether tho Legislature shall grant the 

 ■ ight to construct bulkheads to protect the harbor 

 if San Francisco, a project involving an expend!- 



Rev. Dr. Close, Dean of Carlisle, heads tbe list. 



Tue annual demand for postage stamps in Great 

 Britain ia 500,000,000. This would requiri 

 000 to be manufactured each working day. 



The Emperor Napoleon has recently ordered tho 

 appropriation of twenty -eight thousand dollars 

 for the thorough repair of Longwood House, and 

 the tomb of the Emperor Napoleon I, at SL Helena, 

 as well as tbe domain called the Vale of Napoleon. 

 Since the French Government came into posses- 

 sion of this territory, they have always kept a 

 resident Commandant at Longwood. 



The English Home Government and the East 

 India Government hind themselves to connect, 

 with telegraph, the Indian peninsula with tbe 

 island of Singapore, while the Dutch Government 

 agrees to carry out the connection to the south-east 

 point of the island of Java, which belongs to Hol- 



The cable for the telegraph from Ad 

 rachee has been dispatched from Live 

 was expected to be laid by the middle o 



will be complete. The length of tbe nev 

 is lj900 knots, and electricians report i 

 state of perfection. 



-There ire now nineteen 1(6001 

 eily ot Philadelphia. 



— London and Calcutta are to be 



— The good p M pi e f Baltimore 

 log business prayer nieeUugai 



— The Canadian* are discussing 



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-Wnbnm, a Massachusetts N 

 as been Indiotcd for selling ailnl 



Pensacola and Mobile, . 



idon (Miss.) Republic* 



The Gheat Eastern-.— It isdecided that th 

 mammoth is not exempt from the ills that ordinary 

 ships are heir to. The directors having decided 

 that the vessel should go to Southampton, she left 

 llolyhood harbor on the3d inst. In steaming 

 of tbe Welch coast she put out far enough 

 to give those on board a taste of life on the 1 

 wave. It was supposed that tbe steamer would 

 ride upon the waves without rolling or pitching 

 like ordinary vessels, but this onticipalioi 

 doomed to disappointment. Tliechairsand tables 

 begain to be unsteady, to reel to and fro like 

 drunken man, and bo at their wil's end. Tbe 

 crockery followed, and cups, saucers and dishes 

 rushed furiously to destruction against the pantry 

 walls, aud were dashed to pieces like a pottei 



bul.tL 



g on towards the bows, a 

 q with a loud boom, 1 

 iu a heavy clump uleui 

 a, and drenching 1 



•uding its green 

 over the forward 

 neu on deck. It 



was also proved by this trial trip that the Great 

 Eastern will require three hundred tons of coal 

 day to make her go at tho rate of fifteen and a bait 

 knots an hour, So, on the whole, it may be qi 

 tioned whether her gigantic size is not, after 

 tbe chief and only merit 



Wreck 



ea ledge near 

 nst. She had 

 tons of cargo 

 r striking she 

 1 capsized and 



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Indian, from Liverpool, struck a 



Marie Joseph, on Monday, the All 



188 passengers, a crew of 100, m 



and some specie. Half an hour a: 



parted amidships. On* boat wa 



several persons drowned. Another was stove 



alongside. Two more boats, with part of the 



passengers andcrew, drifted to iMftnd have not 



since been heard of. The schooner Alexander, 



Oapt Shellnut, was first to render assistance, and 



Halifax the Mtfa inat,, with 84 persons 



formed at Sun Francis- on board. The nunibor of lives lost 13 not yet 



th the inteutiou of embracing the whole knoyn. Th* iohooner Lute*, ran close among tbe 



for the purpose of excluding the Chinamen breakers and bi-eame herself a total wreck. Crew 

 from all employinout except the lowest kind. J saved. 



— Lombard)-, Mrlbplace of paw 



o.,Md., during a panle < 



W nod *S,u<KJ,uuo are invested in that ollj 



eaa ot manufacturing carriages. 



— A ellliens' gas-light company has bee 

 1 Brooklyn, oil iho slock token, and eon 

 r building works, laving pipe, etc. 



— Southern Legislatures are everywhere 

 by tho plantation pr.au to make stringent I 

 Northern peddlers and lra\cllut: ngenk. 



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