MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER: AN AGRICULTURAL AND FAMILY JOURNAL 
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ROCHESTER.. MARCH 14, 1850. 
Local Agents. 
James Van Horn, Ovid ; also general agent for 
South Jury District of Seneca county. 
S. E. Norton, Phelps, Ontario county. 
B. Farr and H. Goodrich, Albion. 
Samuel Heston, Batavia. 
R. B. Warren, Alabama, Genesee county. 
Theodore Dickinson, Newark, Wayne county. 
Silsby & Keeler, Seneca Falls. 
A. R. Frisbie, Clyde, Wayne county. 
Wm. Richey & O. A. Graves, Watertown, Jeff. co. 
John Harris, Sheldrake, Seneca county. 
Archibald Stone, Hinmanville, Oswego county. 
E. W. Fairchild, East Bloomfield, Ontario county. 
G. N. Sherwood, Camillus, Onondaga county. 
C. B. Dickinson and P. Parks, Victor, Ontario Co. 
J. W. Reed, Lock port, Niagara county. 
J. M. Trowbridge, Pekin, “ “ 
JohnB. Lowell, Yates, Orleans county. 
H. S. Frisbie, Holley, “ “ 
L. A. Morse, Knowlesville, “ “ 
M. Scott, Arcadia, Wayne county. 
H. C. White, Mohawk, Herkimer county. 
D. Bunnell, South Livonia, I.ivingston county. 
E. C. Bliss, Westfield, Chautauque county. 
J. I. Eacker, Sheridan, “ “ 
J. C. Sherman, New Baltimore, Greene county. 
L. D. Bninch, Trumansburg, Tompkins county. 
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subscribers, and continues to act as agent. 
ForCJlub Terms, &,c. see last page. 
Congressional and Legislative. 
Synopsis of Congressional Proceedings. 
There is very little doing in Congres-s, but de¬ 
bating and dodging the great and absorbing ques¬ 
tion of admitting California with a free Constitu¬ 
tion. It involves all the questions, bearings and 
feelings that agitate the North and the South. The 
Bobadils of the South have twice appointed the 
day when, if their views were not complied with, 
the Union xvas at an end; but, like some other 
prophecies, it wouldn’t come off — and tlie Union 
of these United States is yet as safe and unshaken 
as the base of the Rocky Mountains. 
Mr. Calhoun has made his great speech, or rath¬ 
er great read, as from the debility he was suffering 
under, he was unable to deliver it himself; and, 
being unwilling that the end should come, without 
his important warnings, he got a friend to read it 
for him. Its explosion has done no harm; it “died 
and made no sign.” 
The case of Lieut. Schaumbergh, which has 
been before the House for 14 years, (in which he 
claims to be reinstated, and back pay to the amount 
of $30,000,) is exciting a good deal of remark. 
Fletcher Webster, son of Daniel Webster, has 
been confirmed, as surveyor of the Port of Boston. 
Mr. Hilliard of Alabama, and Mr. Stanley of 
Noith Carolina, have had a regular, wordy set-to. 
Mr. Stanley blistered, the extreme slavery men, and 
Stood lip for free principles like a freed man. 
Petitions, in all shapes, on the Slavery subject, 
continue to be received. 
Mr. Webster has given his views on the great 
subject, and Mr. Seward is represented as prepar¬ 
ing himself to follow suit. Mr. W.’s speech does 
not come up to our free notions, and will hardly 
meet the views of the North. 
The Senate Committee have reported adversely 
to die petition to renew the patent on Woodsworth’s 
Planing Machine — a monopoly .that has been in 
force many years. 
The same fate ought to befall the application to 
renew the patent right on the Iron Plcv/. It is 
more than 20 years since the first patent expired, 
and it has been once renewed; and now, when it 
is in the hand.s of every farmer in the United States, 
to give the remote descendants of the inventor, the 
power to put the screws to everj' person who use.s 
that important article, would be an outrage not to 
be quietly borne. 
Legislature of New York. 
Monday, March 4. The following bills v/ere 
reported in the Senate: To amend the act requir¬ 
ing compensation for injury on railroads; to license 
steam engineers; relating to assessment and col¬ 
lection of ta.xes; — and various bills adversely.— 
Several bills of a local character were passed. 
In the House, after the presentation of petitio.ns, 
the Lockport and Medina school bills were dis¬ 
cussed at some length, and the former ordered to 
a third reading. 
March 5. In Senate, the special committee to 
whom the matter liad been referred, reported 
plank road bill completed, with sundry amend¬ 
ments. 
The bill was read and amendments were made 
to the 1st and .3d sections. Several amendments 
were then oflered to the 4th section, and it v/as 
finally amended so as to exempt persons from toll 
through one gate, who were going for the purpose 
of getting grinding or blacksmithing done, at a 
distance of five miles or less. Some other amend¬ 
ments were then adopted, and a motion was made 
to strike out the whole section, w'hich was lost by 
a vote of 8 to 13. 
The 6th section, on motion of Mr. Mann, was 
amended so as to prevent the putting up of “ lioist 
gates.” Other amendments were made to this 
section, and then the report of the select commit¬ 
tee as amended, was agreed to. 
The committee of the whole took up the bank 
note bill (the “par redemption” act,) and discus¬ 
sed the same until the hour of adjournment. 
In the House, Mr. Leavenworth reported against 
permitting the New York and Erie railroad to ter¬ 
minate their road in New Jersey. Agreed to. 
Mr. A. Green, complete, with an amendment, 
the Senate bill authorizing the sale and transfer of 
portions of the estate of W. W. Wadsworth. 
Mr. E'ord, a bill declaring when bills and drafts, 
made payable at sight, shall bo deemed due. 
Mr. McLean, favorably, the resolution to print 
20 times the usual number of the Transactions 
of State Agricultural Society. The resolution 
was passed. 
Mr. White reported against the petition requir¬ 
ing roads to be worked by tax. Agreed to. 
Also, a bill to change the name of the Maeedon 
and Victor Plank Road Co. Also, complete, the 
bill in relation to encroachments upon the highway. 
Also, a bill making appropriations for the support 
of Common Schools for the year 1851 and 1852. 
Mr. Leavenwmrth, complete, the bill to amend 
the charter of the Canandaigua and Corning Rail¬ 
road Co. 
Mr. Harmon moved to refer the bill to amend 
the eharter of the Rochester Savings Bank to the 
select committee to report complete. Agreed to. 
Bills passed; In relation to location of a gate 
on Lockport and Warren plank road; declaring 
Moose river a public highway; for relief of the 
creditors of the Lockport and Niagara Falls Rail¬ 
road Co.; to amend the charter of the Lewiston 
Suspension Bridge Co. 
March 6. The Senate further discussed the 
par redemption bill, without result. The act re¬ 
lating to plank road companies was passed; also, 
an act relating to town and county expenses. 
In the House bills were reported to restrain the 
sale of intoxicating drinks, and to repeal the Ex¬ 
cise Law. Also, a bill for the preservation of 
Washington’s Headquarters at Newburgh. 
Mr. L. W. Smith’s motion to print the Consti¬ 
tution in the German language was lost. 
The subject of the alledged canal frauds was 
introduced by Mr. Prnyn, who askecT unanimous 
consent to move that the special committee to be 
appointed be chosen by ballot — three to be taken 
from the majority and three from the minority.— 
Various motions were made, and questions of or¬ 
der raised, during which, great excitement pre¬ 
vailed — one side of the House begging the Speak¬ 
er not to announce the committee, and the other 
side urging him to do so. The chair finally nam¬ 
ed the committee as follows: Messrs. L. D. Smith, 
Burroughs, Church, Wheeler, Dox, 
Mr. Raymond immediately offered a resolution, 
setting aside the appointment, and providing for 
the selection of a new committee by ballot. Du¬ 
ring the afternoon session this resolution was adopt¬ 
ed — and the following committee chosen by bal¬ 
lot: Messrs. Wheeler, Church, Townsend, McIn¬ 
tosh, L. D, Smith, 
March 7. The Senate passed a bill providing 
for the education of ten Indian youtiis at the 
State Normal School. 
The bank bill, and the bills in relation to mano¬ 
rial lands, were discussed in committee. 
Nothing of particular importance was done in 
the House. 
March 8. Senate.—A resolution was adopted, 
that the railroad committee visit Lake Champlain 
during tlie recess, and report on the feasibility of 
bridging said lake. 
The par redemption bill was considered in com¬ 
mittee, until the hour of adjourning, without final 
action. 
The House went into committee of the whole, 
on the bill for the relief of certain purchasers of 
lands in the Oneida Purchase, in 1840 and 1841. 
The bill was passed in committee and referred to 
the House. 
New Publications. 
Dictionary of Mechanics. —Nos. 3, 4 and 5 of 
this valuable work are issued and now before us.— 
It continues to come up to the standard we assign¬ 
ed it, as the ablest and most complete text book for 
mechanics and mechanical science, ever publish¬ 
ed. The same information cannot be procured in 
any other form for one hundred dollars, while this 
work only costs ten dollars complete, or 25 cents 
per number, monthly. 
Persons desiring this work and enclosing from 
one to ten dollars, as most convenient, to D. M. 
Dewey, agent for this city, will have the numbers 
regularly forwarded. 
Caeifornia Sketches, &c. —This is a pamph¬ 
let of about 60 pages, containing the experience of 
one who has “seen the elephant.” It is written 
in a graphic, oil’ hand style, that commends it to 
the reader. The author describes the actual scen- 
ery, resources, habits and prospects of that coun¬ 
try, and which are not quite as high colored (yel¬ 
low) as the general newspaper accounts make 
them. For sile at Dewey’s News Room. 
Report of the Committee of Supervision of the 
First Exhibition of Domestic Poultry, held at the 
Public Garden, Boston, Nov., 1819. 
WE are indebted to the Committee for a copy of 
this beautiful publication, fully illustrated with well 
executed engravings of alt the esteemed and cu¬ 
rious varieties of Domestic Fowls Icnown in this 
countiy. 
The Wool Grower and Magazine of Agri¬ 
culture AND Horticulture. —The March num¬ 
ber closes the first year and volume of this valu¬ 
able work. Wc trust the second volume, which 
commences in April, will have an extensive cir¬ 
culation among the wool growers and farmers 
throughout the Union. It is conducted with dis¬ 
cretion and ability, and contains information to be 
obtained from no other source. Every wool grower 
should subscribe for this periodical at once. The 
price is only 50 cents. The editor says: “ For 
one dollar we will send Vol. 1 stitched, and Vol. 
2. For two dollars, 4 copies of Vol. 2, and one 
sett of Vol. 1; or 4 setts of Vol. 1, stitched:—and 
in that proportion for a greater number. To 
agents we will allow 20 per cent discount.” 
The Wool Grower makes a very neat appear¬ 
ance; each number contains 16 pages, octavo.— 
Published m.onthly at Buffalo, N. Y., by T. C. 
Peters, Esq., proprietor of Buffalo Wool Depot. 
Two Weeks Later from California. 
The U. S. Mail Steamer Georgia arrived at 
New Y’ork on Friday evening, March 8, with two- 
weeks later nows from California, received by the 
Panama at Panama. She brought 250 passengers 
from Chagres, 50 from Havana, and about $600,- 
000 in gold dust. It is presumed that the passen¬ 
gers also had $300,000 or $400,000, not in the 
manifest. 
The California left San Francisco on the 15th 
Jan., had on board about $500,000, which is now 
on its way to this city in other vessels. 
There had been no communication with the 
mines for several weeks previous to the sailing of 
the California. 
Mr. Devoo, the mail agent, has made the jour¬ 
ney from San Francisco to New York in thirty-five 
days — the actual traveling time was only twenty- 
seven days. 
Tlie Placer Times of January 18th states that 
the flood was rapidly receding at Sacramento city, 
and says;—The tremendous mountain torrents 
which have been rushing into the rivers above 
must have had the efiect of forming new bars, 
which will probably prove as rich as any yet dis¬ 
covered.^ There have been small flakes of gold 
found ill our streets within a few days past, and 
we saw a gentleman yesterday who had washed 
out quite a “ pile” on the Sacramento, not over a 
quarter of a mile from our office. Large numbers 
have been washing gold within the limits of our 
city during the week, without any great degree of 
success, however, this point being too remote from 
the mountains. 
The operations at tlie mint were continued with 
full average success. 
On the American River and its branches, as 
well as in the ravines and gulches in the moun¬ 
tains between them, those who work obtain from 
.$5 to $50 per day, when the weather will allow 
operations to be carried on. Gold is found in the 
high banks of the rivers, and among the rocks, 
where no one deigned to look for it in the diy sea¬ 
son. It is believed there cannot be less than 20,- 
000 persons wintering in the mineral regions of 
the Sacramento and San Joaquin, and it is said 
general good health prevails. 
The Pacific News says:—“ There is no evi¬ 
dence yet of decrease in the products of gold or 
signs of its exhaustion, but it is still described as 
rough work. Large, howeve, as is the eriiigration, 
there is room for a hundred times the number, if 
they only be of the right metal.'' 
Several shocks of an earthquake were felt at 
San Francisco on the 16th of January; two oc¬ 
curred about 11 o’clock in the morning, and a 
third at 1 o’clock, P. M. They were of several 
seconds duration. 
At the Georgetovzn diggings, a settlement of one 
thousand souls, the placer is said to be nearly ex¬ 
hausted. 
Provisions are selling at comparatively low pri¬ 
ces at the diggings, l-'lour, by the quantity, is sel¬ 
ling at 25 cents per pound. Pork from 37c to 62c. 
Potatoes readily command $1 50 per pound. No 
other vegetables are to be obtained. On the Mid¬ 
dle and North E’orks, the American miner’s camps 
are abundantly supplied with venison. 
At Hangtown, near the South fork, wdierc about 
5,000 people are quartered, although the snow has 
interrupted mining operations, the belief is preva¬ 
lent, that the approaching summer ivil! find the 
washings of unabated value. 
Lumber was selling in Sacramento City at ,$155 
per M., a great reduciion from former prices. 
Charles Eanies, Esq., wlio was sent out by the 
U. States Government, a Commissioner to nego- 
ciate a treaty of ticmmorce and navigation wi:h the 
Sandwich Islands, returned home m the steamer 
of January first. 
From ijho I2th day of April, 1849, to Januaiy 
29th 1850, inciiisive, 39,888 passengers arrived at 
San Francisco by sea; 1,421 were females. They 
arrived in 805 vessels, 487 American and 318 
Foreign. 
The amount of tonnage that arrived at San 
Francisco during the same period, was 284,238. 
Some fine new hotels are being erected in San 
Francisco. Theatres and stage companies are al¬ 
so organized in good style. His Law Courts are 
also much engaged, and “Police Reports” and 
“Coroner’s Inquests” figure largely in the news¬ 
papers. 
A Dr. McNair, formerly of Philadelphia, fell 
and broke his neck, lately at San Francisco, while 
in a state of exhaustion from dysentciy’. 
A city charter for San Francisco has been pre¬ 
pared, and was submitted to the people on the 2nd 
of Februar)'. This cliarter is published in the Al¬ 
ta California of February 1st, but we have not 
space for a review. 
A meeting has been held in San Francisco on 
the subject of building a railroad from that city to 
the Mining District, on American and P’cather 
Rivers. 
The Panama Echo vouches for the fact that 
“ there is gold on the Isthmus, and in large quan- 
titie.s.” 
Great Fire in Euffelo. ! 
A VERY destructive fire occured in Buffalo, on 
Sunday morning last. It originated in the Globe 
Hotel adjoining the American Hotel. The Ex¬ 
press says:—“ The amount of property destroyed 
is large—laying in ashes the American Hotel, 
which was the pride of the towm, the Park Church, 
a fine edifice, and a large number of stores and 
places of business. The most beautiful part of our 
city is now a pile of smouldering ruins.” 
The number of buildings destroyed was about 
twenty. The total loss is estimated at $132,000, 
of which about $60,000 was insured. 
Geneva College. —At a meeting of the Trus¬ 
tees of this Institution, held on the 6th in.st., at the 
Medical College, the Rev. William D. Wilson, 
I D. D., was appointed Professor of Moral and In- j 
tellectual Philosophy and History. j 
John Palmer Mctlregor, Esq., A. M., was ap¬ 
pointed Professor of Mathematics and Natural 
Philosophy. 
Rev. Kendrick Metcalf, A. M., was appointed 
Professor of the Ijatin and Greek Languages and j 
Literature. _ | 
New York Railroads. —The returns made to 
the Comptroller, of the Railroads in tliis State, 
give as the total length of roads constructed, 1,002 
58-100 miles; total cost of the road.s in operation 
is $44,519,650, equal to $45,000 a mile, and the 
total revenues, $4,289,205, equal to $4,000 per 
mile. 
The Morse line of Telegraph from Piits- 
burgh,via. Wheeling, Maysville, Cincinnati, Lex¬ 
ington, Louisville, Nashville, Vicksburgh, and 
Natchez, will soon be finished. It is now working 
from Pittsburgh to Nashville. The Cincinnati 
Gazette says a sufficient amount of stock has been 
raised to insure the com()letion of the long line 
from New Orleans to Nashville, which portion will 
be i» operation by the middle of July. 
Foreign Intelligence. 
ARRIVAL OF TflF^TEAMER CANADA. 
Two weeks Later from Europe. 
New York, March 9—10 A. M.—The Canada 
arrived at Halafax yesterday. 
Cotton declined with sales during the two 
weeks of 42,000 bales. 
Corn market dull. Prices nominal, 25a28s white 
30a30|. 
Flour—Western canal 22a22^, Philadelphia and 
Baltimore 23a23^. 
American provisions improved. New western 
32a34s, fine new eastern 34a37s, old was wanted. 
Pork was in demand at 34a35s, new 52a55. Lard 
advanced and in fair request at 33a33J. 
Consols for money 95|. American securities in 
fair request. 
The political intelligence by the Canada is not 
very important. 
France. —The emeute in Paris has been put 
down, but the Socialists are organizing for a grand 
demonstration on the 24th inst. Military prepara¬ 
tions, however, have been made to keep the peace, 
and the provinces have been placed under a civil 
kind of Martial law. 
Loins Napoleon was not so popular as hereto¬ 
fore. The French have mediated in the Greek 
quarrel. 
Greece. —Admiral Parker is still continuing the 
blockade upon a great number of luerchantmen 
and .several corvettes belonging to Greece. 
King Otho is beloved by his subjects. Prussia 
and Austria have come to his aid. A fleet has been 
sent from the latter, to oppose Sir W. Parker. 
Austria. —Austria has proposed a German Cus¬ 
toms Union, on the principle of protection, instead 
of, ns heretofore, the prohibition of foreign manu¬ 
factures. 
Prussia. —The Prussian Constitution has been 
accepted and sworn to by the King, and ratified by 
the People, amidst great rejoicings. 
E.ngland.— The English news in unimportant. 
No political intelligence of moment beyond the fact 
that Parliament has been engaged during the fort¬ 
night in debating the Free Trade policy of Gov¬ 
ernment and some alteration of the Irish law, of 
the election on the Free Trade question. Minis¬ 
ters were sustained by a majority of only 31. 
IMost peojile in England look upon the Greek 
quarrel as a demonstration on the part of Lord Pal¬ 
merston against Russia, with the view of checking 
the Czar’s operations against Turkey. If so, it has 
been a failure. It is said, but not credited, that the 
island of St. Prinsea has been seized by Admiral 
Parker. 
The feeling in England is against ihc policy of 
such movement. 
Austria and IIu.vgary. —The Emperor has re¬ 
covered from his recent indisposition. The Min- 
istiy has published in extenso, its projects for the 
formation of the Austro-Germauic customs and po¬ 
litical Union. The memorandum recommends 
the abolition of prohibitoiy duties and the substitu¬ 
tion of such protective duties as may bo required. 
This is regarded as an important measure and one 
much calculated to advance the Mercantile inter¬ 
ests of the Union. 
The people of Hungary' are beginning to express 
their feelings toward the Government. Count A. 
Telake has been released from custody. 
The sentence of death passed on twcnty||direc 
Hungarian officers on the i6th January, has been 
commuted by Baron Haynau to terms of imprison¬ 
ment in irons, vary’ing from 15 to 5 years. 
A serious collision liad taken place between two 
Regiments of Infantry and Inspruck, in which 30 
men were wounded. 
The fleet is to be increased to two frigates of 60 
and a corvette of 30 guns. 
Turkey. —The latest dates from Constantinople 
are of the 30th January, at which time it was ap¬ 
prehended that the English demonsti'ation in 
Greece would divide the efforts of France and her¬ 
self in the Turko-Russian affair. 
Latest from Oregon, 
We have the .Spectator, of Nov. 1. The news 
contained is barely' of general interest, but we are 
pleased to note a reaction in the agricultural pros¬ 
pects of our sister Territory. Her citizens arc re¬ 
turning from California enriched by a summer of 
successful gold digging, and attention is now being 
directed to the settlement and improvement of her 
broad and fertile lands. 
Mechanical labor commands higher rates in 
Oregon than ever before. Carpenters arc receiv¬ 
ing from five to ten dollars per day. 
The W.illametto was rising rapidly, the effect of 
recent severe rains. 
The Clackamas Female Seminary is the name 
of an institution chartered by the Oregon Legisla¬ 
tive Assembly. Its organization has been per¬ 
fected. 
The departure from Oregon of the U. S. Mail 
for California, is advertised by A. Crosby', Jr., 
Agent N. S. P. Co. to take place between the 20th 
and 30th of each month. 
Markets. —It will be noticed that there has been 
a still further advance in the price of breadstuff's. 
Wheat has been stationary for a week at two dol¬ 
lars per bushel. 
The stock of groceries in this market, except su¬ 
gar, coffee, and tea, is very nearly consumed.— 
Salt, syrup, saleratus, sulphur, and many other ar¬ 
ticles in constant demand are very' scarce, if to be 
had at all, and command high prices. A cargo of 
hollow-ware, stove, cooking utensil.s, patent water 
pumps, etc. would find good market here. Indeed 
this market is far from being glutted by any kind 
of merchandize. 
Apbointment by the President. —Mr. G. V. 
Brown, of this city, has been ajipointed Consul at 
Tangiers, Morocco, in place of Thomas 11. Hyatt, 
the present incumbent. Mr. B., for the last six 
y'ears, has been connected with the Commercial 
Department of this paper, and by his industry and 
knowledge, has done much to bring before the 
country the capacity and almost boundle.ss resour¬ 
ces of tho West. The appointment is appropriate 
and deserv'ing .—Buffalo Advertiser. 
Growing Wheat Crop in Wisconsin. —The 
Watertown (Wis.) Chronicle, says: 
The winter has been unfavorable to the wheat 
crop. The absence of snow has exposed it to our 
strong wintry winds; while our warm days and 
freezing nights have seriously affected the tender 
roots. We are told that upon the prairies, the crop 
has suffered severely. A spring as unfavorable as 
the winter, will lie sure to give us another light 
harvest. __ 
Arrested. —The man who pretended to be a 
Rev. Mr. Adler, and imposed upon a lady at Lew’- 
iston a short time since by marrying her, has been 
committed to Lockport jail to await trial for ob¬ 
taining money under false pretences. He says his 
real name is James Hayden. He confessed that 
he caused an account of his own death to bo pub¬ 
lished in the New York payers last summer, and 
formerly preached in the vicinity of Philadelphia. 
— Rock. Adv. 
Chips and Shavings of Ne'ws, &c. 
gathered with pen and scissors. 
1^” The Annexationists are carrying all before 
them in tlie Lower Canada elections. 
Six Lives Lost. —Tho schooner Isabella w'as 
lost in a gale off Sandy Hook on Sunday night, 
and six persons who were on board perished. 
The propeller Troy was burned to the wa¬ 
ter’s edge at Erie on Thursday evening. Loss 
$8,000 or $10,000. 
William James, a soldier of the Revolution, 
died recently, in reading, (Pa.,) at the advanced 
age of 93 years. 
The new Pasha of Egj'pt has ordered a set 
of elegant equipages to be built for him in the Uni¬ 
ted States, to be ready during tho spring. 
The Rev. E. H. Leahey, who goes lectur¬ 
ing about the countn,’ upon indecent subjects, has 
been mobbed at St. Louis. 
Judge Thomas, and the Rev. Mr. Harlow, 
two prominent citizens of Milwaukie, were acci¬ 
dentally drowned on the 27th ult. 
Mr. John flughs, a soldier of the Revolu¬ 
tion, died at his residence near Fairfield, in Rock¬ 
bridge Co., Va., on the 9th ult., aged one hundred 
and seven years. 
A locomotive is now in course of construc¬ 
tion, at Cambridge, Mass, which is warranted to 
draw a passenger train at the rate of fifty miles an 
hour. 
51 ;^" Many persons at San Francisco send their 
clothes to the Sandwich Islands to be washed!— 
The laundiy' is only tw’o thousand miles distance 
from them. 
j[p^” Counterfeit $3’s on the Farmers’ and Me¬ 
chanics’ Bank, Hartford, Conn., are getting to be 
quite plentiful. W. T. Hooker, Cashier; H. 
Godwin, 2d, Pre.sident; paper coar.se and rough— 
letter B. 
Sea in Africa. —The South African Commer¬ 
cial Advertiser announces that a new sea too wide 
for vision across it, has been discovered in the in¬ 
terior of that continent. 
Ice Bridge. —The Niagara Iris says there is 
now a solid bridge of ice across tho Niagara, just 
below the Falls, upon which many persons cross 
daily.- 
The Lumber Trade in Canada. —The Toron¬ 
to Examiner says, American speculators are ma¬ 
king extensive contracts for lumber in the Prov¬ 
ince, and in some instances the mills have sold all 
they can make for months to come. 
Smart Damages for a Dog Bite. —In the Bos¬ 
ton Court of Common Pleas, on Thursday, James 
Powers recovered a verdict of $823 against the 
Fall River Railroad Co., as owners of a violent 
dog, which had severely bitten tho plaintilY’s child. 
A correspondent of a New York paper 
states that gold in considerable quantities has been 
discovered in Lower California, and that reports to 
this effect have induced tho natives of that coun¬ 
tiy', who went Northward, to return home. 
Gov. Burnett of California, is a middle aged 
man, Yankee born, wo believe, and for a longtime 
a resident at the South and West. His name fig¬ 
ures in the history of Texas. 
During the month of Februarj’ there were 
three and a third tons of gold receive at the Phila¬ 
delphia Mint from California. The gold amounted 
to about $2,000,000 in value. 
Owing to the unusual mild weather this 
winter, the quantity of ice housed from ponds 
near Boston, for wholesale and shipping purposes, 
is only about one quarter as large as that obtained 
last year. 
Hon. Ed'vard Gilbert, editor of the Alta 
California, who was formerly a journeyman print¬ 
er in Albany, which city he left three years ago as a 
volunteer in Col. Stevenson’s regiment, has just 
returned a man of ample property, and a member 
of Congress. 
Pearson, who has been on trial in Boston 
for the murder of his wife and two twin children, 
was found guilty on Friday week, but was unan¬ 
imously recommended to mercy by the juiy', in 
consequence of his low mental capacities. 
The family of Mr. Clark Rice, of Stock- 
ton, Chatauque county, N. Y., has been deprived 
of four of its members by death within as many 
days; the father and three of his children having 
died of canker rash. 
Cattle Trade with the United States.— 
The Port Hope, C. W. Watchman, states, that 
nearly 500 cows, 100 oxen, and a number of hor¬ 
ses, have recently been purchased in tlie back town¬ 
ships of that section of tho countiy', for the New 
York market. 
5p^” Several main columns of the Smithsonian 
Institute have given way. The accident is very- 
serious. 
Comfortable Income for a Senator. —Col. 
Fremont’s rents at San Francisco, amounts to $40, - 
000 per annum. 
The total number of vessels cleared from 
the Atlantic States for California, since the 1st of 
October last, is about 350. 
Cattaraugus county has elected 14 whig 
Supervisors and 14 democrats, and there is one 
town in which there is a tie. 
Boston California Fleet. —The whole num¬ 
ber of vessels cleared from Boston for California, 
since the first discovery of gold up to this time, is 
203, viz: 72 ships, 60 barques, 49 brigs, and 22 
schooners. Probably these vessels have carried 
out some 2,500 passengers, and about $5,000,000 
in freight. 
A Splf.-Ndid Depot. —The Utica Daily Gazette 
is informed, on the authority of one of the Direct¬ 
ors of the Utica and Schenectady Railroad Com¬ 
pany, that the company intend erecting an elegant 
depot in that city, in the course of the ensuing 
summer, at a cost of ,$100,000. 
Jp:^^” An earthquake in Wisconsin, at Two Riv¬ 
ers, on the 3d ult., in the evening, was accompa¬ 
nied by several reports resembling distant cannon¬ 
ading. Tho shock caused a large fissure in the 
ground, an inch pr more wide, as well as several 
smaller ones. The weather at the time was very 
cold, the lake covered with drifting ice, and the 
mercury at 12 degrees below zero. 
Cotton Factory in Albany. —The Evening 
Journal says that a company has been formed in 
that city, under the general manufacturing law, 
with a capital of $100,000, for manufacturing cot¬ 
ton fabrics. The stock was taken by some twenty 
persons, and the buildings will bo speedily com¬ 
menced. From 80 to 100 looms v/ili be put in op¬ 
eration, and worked by steam. 
Navio.ation of Lake Erie. —We have noticed 
for several days past, by the Western papers, that 
the steamer Arrow was shooting from port to port 
at tlie upper end of Lake Erie, with tlie intention 
of reaching Buffalo as soon as possible. From 
the fact that her arrival is not announced at that 
port, we infer that barriers of ice exist somewhere 
between Detroit and Buffalo.— Rock. Ado. 
