MOOEE’S EUEAL NEW-IOEKEE: AN AGEICULTUEAL AND EAMELY JOUENAl. 
Eochester (JoUegiate Institute. 
Tbe Season. 
Arrived of the Crescent City. Chips and Shavings of News, &c. 
ROCHESTER, MAY 2, 1850. 
Local Agents. 
James Van Horn, Ovid; also general agent for 
South Jury District of Seneca county. 
S.|E. Norton, Phelps, Ontario county. 
E. Hopkins, Lyons, Wayne 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, Lockport, Niagara county. 
J. M. Trowbridge, Pekin, “ “ 
John B. 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, Livingston county. 
E. C. Bliss, Westfield, Chautauque county. 
J. I. Eacker, Sheridan, “ “ 
J. C. Sherman, New Baltimore, Greene county. 
L. D. Branch, Trumansburg, Tompkins county. 
W. K. Wyckoff, l.odi, Seneca Co. 
O. B. .Scott, Woodville, Jefferson Co. 
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forming clubs, &c. Those who cannot consistently 
do so, will greatly oblige us by handing a Prospectus 
or specimen number to some other influential and 
responsible person who will give it attention. 
(Lr We will send an extra copy to any person 
who remits payment for a club of from four to ten 
subscribers, and continues to act as agent. 
QU’ For Club terms. Premiums, &c. see last page. 
Notices to Correspondents. 
S.’II. S., of J. You can obtain Seymour’s 
Broadcast Sowing Machine on application to P. 
Sev.mour, East Bloomfield, Ont. Co., N. Y. It 
can be forwarded to you by canal or railroad.— 
For price, &c., see [advertisement in our last 
number. 
We cannot now give the analysis you mention, 
but may do so in a future number. 
A. S., of H. We would like a more particular 
description of your gate, together with cost, &c. 
The diagrams received are good. 
E. B., of S. Hussey’s Reaping Machine per¬ 
forms its work well, and is highly recommended. 
It can be obtained of the manufacturer at Auburn, 
or of Rapalje & Briggs, in this city. McCor¬ 
mick’s Reaper is also a good machine. Itisman- 
ufactnred at Brockport, in this countv. These two 
are the principal reapers used in Western New 
York. The price ol Hussey’s is from $110 to 
.$120—three sizes; McCormick’s about $100, we 
believe. 
You can obtain a Clover Mill of E. J. Burrall, 
Geneva, N. Y. 
G. D. A., of C. You are mistaken. We pub¬ 
lished the entire Premium List of the State Soci¬ 
ety six weeks ago—in an extra accompanying No. 
12. Your subscription commenced with No. 14, 
and -of course you did not receive a copy of the list; 
we now mail it to your address. Instead of being 
“ behind other papers,” as you suppose, the boot 
is entirely on the other “ pedal extremity.” 
E. R., of Pa. Douglas’ Ram, noticed elsewhere 
in this number, is what you want—the best, prob¬ 
ably, that can be obtained. 
G. C., of B. The article on root culture, first 
page of this number, answers your inquiry. It is 
from one of the best farmers in Western New 
York. _ 
D. M., of P. The “ American Fruit Culturist,” 
by J. J. Thomas, is good authority on the subjects 
you mention. It costs only one dollar, and is 
worth its weight in California dust to any new be¬ 
ginner in fruit culture. 
Senators Benton and Foote. 
The editor of the National Era, commenting 
on the recent shameful scene that occured in the 
Senate chamber, says:—“ We cannot sympathize 
with the violence of denunciation heard on all sides. 
In one section Mr. Benton is vilified as a bully and 
a ruffian: in another, Mr. Foote is styled a ruffian 
and and an assassin; snd there are loud cries for 
their expulsion. Great injustice is done both Sen¬ 
ators. There is no evidence that violence was 
premeditated by either. Both had become some¬ 
what excited by the events of the day; both acted 
on the impulse of the moment, under a serious 
misapprehension. ’ ’ 
We are amazed and astonished io find in the 
Era such language as we have quoted; and this 
from Dr. Bailey, who, judging from the account 
given, was an eye-witne.S6 of the barbarous tran¬ 
saction w'hich is regarded by the almost entire press 
a national disgrace. He says, “ there is no evi¬ 
dence that violence was premeditated by either.” 
Mr. Foote said in self-justification, that, “ he car¬ 
ried arms only in self-defence—he expected to be 
attacked—was a small man—had a weak physical 
organization —^[never attacked any man — his life 
had been one of self-defence—thought Col. Benton 
had a pistol,” «&:c. This quotation is from anoth¬ 
er eye-witness. The apologist of the Era says 
nevertheless “no violence was premeditated by ei¬ 
ther.” Slavery has its apologists — so has that 
which is w’orse. w. 
The Toronto Examiner says the wheat crop in 
that district wears a promising appeareince. It is 
less injurd by the winter than in the majority of sea¬ 
sons, and the continued cold weather to a later pe¬ 
riod than is usual in the spring, does not appear to j 
have a deleterious effect upon it ' i 
In point of literary merit this institution ranks Gur taste may be peculiar perchance per- 
second to none of the kind with which we are ac- verted — but we cannot help thinking that the fol- 
qainted, and its facilities for giving students a thor- lowing lines contain more sense than much of thg 
ough mental cultivation are perhaps not surpassed poetry that is found clothed in gilt and morocco, 
by those of any similar institution in the State.— Indeed they have such a merrj', humorous jingle, 
We are glad to perceive from its prosperity that its and contain so much seasonable truth wthal, that 
advantages are pretty generally known and appre- we cannot refrain from giving them to the public, 
ciated. About 200 students have been in attend- 
ance the past term. The annual examination, just The wind it blows, my toes are froze, 
closed, evinced great thoroughness of training, and VI ^ 
close application to study. Some of the exercises 
in the Languages and Mathematics would have 
done honor to a class in college. A brief allusion The Lord knows when this storm will end, 
to some of the means for illustrating science at this The time has come for sowing , 
institution may not be uninteresting to our readers. There’s such a row we cannot plow. 
In the department of Natural Philosophy the In- Tor sue an aw u owing, 
stitute is supplied with a very extensive collection But I’ll be still, its a bitter pill, 
of well-selected apparatus, in the purchase of which There is no use complaining 
the only consideration seems to have been to obtain For He knows best when the winds should rest, 
the most valuable article of each kind. To keep Or have it shine or raining, 
pace with scientific discovery, and improvements This life’s a very changing scene, 
in teaching, considerable additions are frequent- Made up of pain and pleasure ; 
ly made, and a liberal sum has been expended this Sometimes it blows and sometimes snows— 
spring towards increasing the apparatus, which Contentment is a treasure, 
will add interest and value to the lectures of the ; changes come about 
ensuing year. And thwart our calculations. 
The study of A.stronomy[ is facilitated by good But he the greatest hero is 
instruments, among which are a telescope, with an Who bears with re.signation. 
eight inch reflector, magnifying from 60 to 800 The time is very near at hand 
times, and an Orrerj’ of superior construction, re- When soft winds will be blowing, 
presenting on a grand scale the proper motion of Wc’ll start the plow, and then just now 
the planets, together with that of their attendant The seed we will be sowing, 
satellites, all in their proper relative tmes-illus- sing-the merry spring 
trating simply and impressively many interesting whining- 
laws of astronomical science. These two articles 
were obtained at an expense of about $1,000 squashes we’ll be dining. 
There is also a fine Geological Cabinet belong- y., April 14, 1850. j. h. 
ing to the Institute, (being one of the sets collected ___ 
and furnished by ; the State,) which affords good DESTRUCTIVE FIRE IN SYRACUSE. 
facilities for imparting instruction in the sciences - 
of Geology and Mineralogy. Eictra of the 26tb 
The Chemical department of the Institute is ^ About half past 11 o’clock last night, a fire 
, ,, . , 1 , • . broke out in the stables in rear of, and belonging 
probably superior to that of any other collegiate Union House, which spread with great ra- 
school in the State. Full courses of lectures and pidity east and west, consuming some eighty buil- 
experiments are given, and the apparatus is of the dings on Water and Genesee-streets and Hano- 
choicest kind, very e.xtensive and under the man- , 
, , ,, V {■ The following persons, occupants and owners, 
agement of one of the ablest chemists of our sufferers as far as we could learn: 
countr};. 
It is not strange that a literary institution pos 
On Water-bt. —Bakery of R. W. Dean; City 
Hotel; three small Groceries; Jhe stabes of the 
sessing such superior educational facilities should Umon House. 
, , / . -.17 , The Yellow Block, on Honover Square, occu- 
enjoy, as this does, great prosperity. We under- pj^^ Adams & Thurber, Flour Store; S. Ash- 
stand that the summer term of the Institute com- by. Grocer; Phinny & Winnegar, Auction and 
mences on Monday, the 6 th instant. Commission Merchants; Step’n Bastable, Butch- 
_ er; Plowright, Vegetable dealer; and Tailor’s 
Meteorological Abstract. shop, occupant not known. The 2d story was 
° occupied by Dr. Hoyt, ramt shop, and dwellings. 
BY L. WETHERELL. Block was Owned by S. Bastable, and insur- 
April,1850. MAx.^^rMiN^l^EAN. RAIN. <^11 Geneseo-st.—The Union House, kept by 
- — - — 77 -,—- B. F. Patridge; Dwelling House; Mrs. Bates, 
f , Milliner, next door. Goods and Furniture entire- 
Qc cvv*"' ly removed, and much damaged. The building 
26 66 I 44 5 L 00 Tw n. owned by J. I. Bradley. Mrs. Whedon, 
27 79 I 50 65.00 w. s w. Milliner, adjoining Mrs, Bates—goods removed 
28 50 I 43 47.’66 n e e. damaged. 
29 I 56 1 40 I 48.66 s w. w. The wind was very still.else the fire would'have 
--extended in every direction. The Granger block 
REMARKS. on Geneseo-st., and the storehouses of Dickinson 
April 23d. Cool; cloudy in the morning, and fair Avert', and 11. Hutch on Water-st., were in 
afternoon. g^e^t dai^er at one time. 
n... , I-■ , 1 , V, .. 1 . J Eight horses were consumed in the stable of the 
24th. Cold morning; fair through the day. ^ horrible sight to see them 
2oth. Warmer elm in full bloom. running about the stable, with manes and tails on 
26th. Continues warm—barn-swallow heard. firo. I’he owners of these horses we did not learn, 
27th. Summer-heat—first this season. but probably belonged to a canal line. 
28th. Cool—the mercury has fallen 36 degrees Phiuney & Winnegar were insured $1000 in 
il,1850. 
THERMOMETER. 
MAX. 1 MIN. 1 MEAN. 
RAIN. 
WINDS. 
23 
44 1 
32 
39.00 
0.86 
N W. 
24 
50 
26 
41.00 
w. s w. 
25 
68 ! 
41 
53.00 
s w. 
26 
66 1 
44 
54.00 
N W. N. 
27 
79 1 
50 
65.00 
w. s w. 
28 
50 1 
43 
47.66 
NE E. 
29 I 
56 1 
40 1 
1 48.66 
S W. W. 
afternoon. g^®aj ^ . 
n... , 7 -■ V, .. 1 . J Eight horses were consumed in the stable of the 
24th. Cold morning; fair through the day. ^ horrible sight to see them 
2oth. Warmer elm in full bloom. running about the stable, with manes and tails on 
26th. Continues warm—barn-swallow heard. fire. I’he owners of these horses we did not learn, 
27th. Summer-heat—first this season. but probably belonged to a canal line. 
28th. Cool—the mercury has fallen 36 degrees Phiuney & Winnegar were insured $1000 in 
since 2 o’clock yesterday. Thunder showers oe- Long Island Company, P. fo. Stoddard, 
curred between midnight and sunrise — thunder , , - , . 
quite heavy. Apricot in flower. 
The exact amount of damage and insurance 
and full particulars we cannot learn, bnt should 
29th. Cool high wind with rain and hail. Calm estimate the loss of property at between $15,- 
and clear at sunset. 000 and $20,000. 
Vegetation has come forth rapidly during the So far as the destruction of buildings relate to 
last tw’o or three days; cooler again—good weather the city at, large, it will be considered no great 
for grass and wheat. loss- They w’ere all very old and wooden, and 
_ had been patched up periodically for the last fif- 
for grass and wheat. 
A Boston correspondent of the SaZem Register , , , , „ 
understands from good authority that a merchant , The firemen w^te on hand, M and well 
•u Ro.ston has sold 8000 casks .of neas this .season. Reserve the credit of doing all in_their power to 
In Eo.ston has sold 8000 casks-of peas this season, 
tc be burnt and ground w'ith coffee and sold as pure 
Java, Sumatra, &c! 
This is both a profitable and a beneficial specu¬ 
lation : profitable because the peas cost the manu¬ 
facturer of the mixture much less than the berries 
save the adjoining buildings. Those from the 
1st Ward were remarkably quick on the ground. 
New Foetal Enterprise. 
facturer of the mixture much less than the berries Communication with California in twelve days! 
of the coffee-tree—and beneficial because is —We learn by private and reliable information 
better for the consumer than the narcotic. Ground from Washington, that a proposition will be laid, 
coffee is extensively ndulteraied wiU. chicery, the 
root of which is sometimes used as a substitute for ning a line of Post Coaches from Independence, 
the exotic berry'. Chickory is not considered of Mo., to California, in 24 days, to be expressed in 
much value and may be easily detected when 12 days. The company only ask of Congress a 
mixed with ground cofiee, by putting the suspect- land 100 feet in width for the whole dis- 
, . , . , , u V/- 11 ? ij ; tance, wim the privilege of purchasing from Gov- 
ed mixture into a tumbler half-full of cold water ernmeni a quarter section of land for the purpose 
if pure coffee it will swim while tbe water will re- of stations, one in every ten miles. The company 
main nearly colorless. Chicory, or Succory as it asks of Congress the use of this route for 15 years, 
is also called, sinks and gives the water a red.tinge. agree to make the franchi^ and wants of land 
V . , “ contingent upon their having the road in operation 
The better way. however is never to suspect ^ithin%ix months, and unlertake to place tAree 
adulteration, so long as nothing worse is used than thousand men upon the line at once.— Detroit 
peas, chickory', corn and beans—for the mixture Advertiser. 
satisfies the cravings of an acquired taste, and pro Wild Pigeons 
duces far less evil than the daily potions of genu- ^^^rngeons. 
ine Mocha. \v. TT.vTTj.r-r of a laftp.r from Indiana: — “I am 
Wild Pigeons. 
I me Mocha. \v. Extract of a letter from Indiana:—“I am 
I .r, . completely worn down. The pigeons are roosting 
Weather and Crops in Oswego County. —A {pj-ough the woods, and the roosts extend for 
letter just received from Mr. A. Stone, of Hin- miles. Our neighbors and ourselves had for seve- 
manville, says:—“ Our snows have been of a last- ral nights to build large fires and keep up reports 
ing quality this .spring. W^e have had two or three ! of fire arms to scare them oft. While I write, 
• J -. 1 . 7 I within a quarter of a mile there are 30 guns firing; 
snow storms lately, accompanied with thunder. j pigeons come in such large quantities as to 
Our spring is very' backward. Grass and winter j destroy a great deal of timber, break limbs of large 
grain begin to look a little green—which, together trees and even tear up some of the roots. The 
with a good representation of spring birds, and the woods are covered with dead pigeons, and the hogs 
, ^ J „ X are e-ettine fat on them. Our old friend Hedrick 
absence of snow for a few days, encourages us to ,1.'; ^ „ 
think that .summer will yet come, although we still ^ x tbp iWp emr^- 
have frosty nights. Wheat looks well, although j No on e is expected to doubt the above s tory. 
backward_ i Webster continues in good health 
TT T> rru XI 17 1 i and snirits. and daily receives his meals from Park- 
University of Rochester. —The New York , „ii 
er’s, a privilege granted to all prisoners who can 
Recorder speaking of the above institution, and the p^y spiritual adviser, Rev. Dr. Park- 
gratifying promise of its success, remarks; j man, a Unitarian clergyman from Roxbury, visits 
“ Monroe county, the county in which Roches- him occasionally in his cell, and hie wife and 
ter is situated, will subscribe almost one-half the daughters twice a week regularly. 
sum necessary to put the Institution under way, -; ; 
and it will be a pity indeed if the rest of the State 51^’* The Legislature of California has passed a 
does not furnish as much more. Indeed, there resolution directing that a block of marble quartz, 
should be no halting short of $200,000. It is but or granite be prepared, with the word “California” 
a small sum for Baptists of New York to raise, and chiselled upon it, and sent to the National Monu- 
it could not be better invested. Rochester itself ment at Washington. It ought to be a “gold 
sets a noble example” rock,” 
LATER FROM PANAMA. 
The Crescent City, Capt. Stoddard, arrived at 
New York on Friday, the 26th ult. She left Cha- 
gres on the 15th ult. 
MOVEMENTS OF THE STEAMSHIPS. 
The steamship Panama, Capt. Bailey, U. S. N. 
sailed on Monday, the let inst., for San Francis¬ 
co, with 300 passengers. 
The Gold Hunter, Capt. Kenny Couillard, left 
Panama on the 7th, with 160 passengers. 
The Sarah Sands, Capt. W. C. ThompBon,sail- 
ed on the 15th, with 400 passengers. 
The Carolina, Capt. Marks, will leave Panama 
on or about the 15th inst. 
The Isthmus is here, waiting orders: and the 
Oregon will loom up about the 1st of May. 
From tbe Panama Echo of the 6tb inst. 
Nothing of special importance has transpired in 
Panama during the week, if we except the opera¬ 
tions on ’Change in tickets of steamships and sail¬ 
ing vessels. A large operation has been realized 
in this line, and no little ingenuity displayed, and 
“cutting under” manifested by stock-jobbers in 
tickets and transfers. 
The advance on steamship tickets is from $50 
to $100 from first cost, (with the exception of the 
Gold Hunter, whose tickets, cabin only, are $300.) 
The active business is confined to the tickets on 
the New World, Columbus, New Orleans and the 
Northerner, yet to arrive. 
Sailing vessels are carrying for ,$120, steerage, 
to San Francisco, and $200 cabin, or $180,double 
berths. Steamer tickets command the usual price, 
with the advance above noticed, and the tendency 
is upwards, though the crowd in Panama,brought ’ 
by the Georgia, and other ships on the Atlantic 
side, have been pretty well thinned out by the sail¬ 
ing vessels. 
From the Echo. 
The Panama Road.—G en. Mosquers has full 
powers for engaging workmen and placing them 
on the road. lie has already contracted for 250 
slaves and 300 freemen, whose engagement will 
begin in June next, as soon as the company re¬ 
quires their services. These men can be sum¬ 
moned here at any time, and arrive at a few day’s 
notice. They can be employed even in the rainy 
season, though a great many persons think differ¬ 
ently, but in this they are mistaken. During this 
period they can perform all the preliminary work 
of cutting trees, «Sz.c , except perhaps some weeks 
of exceedingly hard rains. 
Besides these five hundred and fifty men,already 
engaged for the railroad, Gen. M. has left orders 
with responsible persons in Papayan, to engage 
working men; and laborers in almost any num¬ 
ber and at all times, can be procured from the 
province. 
Fish out of WATER.-r-We have in Panama an 
odd slate of society—a queer commingling of pur¬ 
suits and occupations. We note the appearance 
of an attorney from the States, accustomed te ad¬ 
dress judges, juries and other tribunals, and dis¬ 
play his forensic eloquence from the stump as a 
candidate for Congress, now engaged in the ca¬ 
pacity of a butcher, carrying out surloinsfor Cali¬ 
fornia emigrants; again, a prominent member of 
the sock and buskin, who nightly edified the au¬ 
ditors of the St.Charles with readings from Shaks- 
peare, is now here at one of our restaurants, serv¬ 
ing up roast beef and plum puddings at the dining 
hour; and still more, would you believe it, gentle 
reader, a distinguished Protestant clergyman,who 
started on a mission of love and peace to enlight¬ 
en the heathen, in far off lands, now busily em¬ 
ployed in the stock-jobbing market of ticket spec¬ 
ulation, making his $100 a day, and his conscience 
it is said, leaves no “aching void ” to smite him 
as he comes a dodge over a greenhorn. So wags 
the world. 
The steaipship New World is expected here by 
the 17th or 20th inst. She is said to be a swift 
sailer, and is destined for the Sacramento river. 
She eluded the officers’ grasp at New York, but 
rumor says—we know not how truly—that the 
Sheriff’s posse are on the watch, and intend poun¬ 
cing on the ship in the port of Panama—it may be 
so. Wo shall see. [Panama Star, 5th. 
Among the distinguished visitors now in Pana¬ 
ma are Lady Emmeline Stuart Wortley, and 
daughter. Lady W. is the daugliter of the Duke 
of Rutland, and is allied to the nobility of the Brit¬ 
ish realm. 
During their sojourn in Panama, Lady Wortley 
and daughter are guests of Wm. Perry, Esq., the 
British Consul. She will go as far south as Lima 
or Valparaiso. 
Paine’s Magneto Electric Decomposer. 
A WRITER in the Boston Journal gives the fol¬ 
lowing respecting several experiments recently tried 
at Worcester, by Mr. H. M. Paine. By means of 
magneto electricity he decomposed water into its 
component gases, and then used the gases for pur¬ 
poses of light and heat The writer says: 
Mr. Paine began by giving a general account of 
the principles of his machine. He then set it in 
motion by means of the weight, (of 67 pounds) 
and showed the rapid decomposition of the water, 
and the evolution, therefrom, of pure oxygen in 
the one jar, and pure hydrogen in the other. He 
then set fire to the hydrogen jet; next, he showed 
the action of the oxy-hydrogen, or compound blow 
pipe, by burning different metals; next, the explo¬ 
sive properties of the two gases, when mixed; next 
his new method of producing a brilliant light, more 
brilliant than that from carburetted-hydro^n gas, 
by burning only oxygen and hydrogen, without us¬ 
ing calcium; and lastly, the intense light, produc¬ 
ed by the gases falling upon calcium—which last 
light, altliough coming from one small jet, threw 
the gas lights in the hall completely into the shade. 
Plank Roads.—A lthough only introduced into 
this State about three years since, there are now 
constructed or in progress, between 2,000 and 3,000 
miles of plank road, in which are invested a capi¬ 
tal of over $3,000,000. It is a strong argument in j 
their favor, that in no instance, so far as we are | 
aware, has a plank road yot been constructed that 
has proved a losing concern to the stockholders.— j 
Of two roads running into Utica, each about 20 
miles long, and which cost near $40,000 each, one 
pays 25 per cent, regularly, and the otlier has de¬ 
clared a dividend of 10 per cent, payable to the 
stockholders, while 10 per cent, has been reser¬ 
ved for repairs. 
Suicide. —We learn that a painful affair occur¬ 
red in Springwater, on Monday last, in the family 
of Mr. John Howell, a worthy farmer and estima¬ 
ble citizen of that tuwu, whose son, a young man, 
shot himself. A Coroner’s inquest was held, but 
no cause could be conjectured for the lamentable 
-act.— DansvUle Courier, '24th. 
The first man who pegged a shoe in this, 
or any other country, is said to be now living in 
Hopkinton, Mass. His name is Joseph Walker. 
The value of pegged boots and shoes now manu¬ 
factured, in Massachusetts alone, is $18,JK)0,I}00 
annually. 
gathered WITH PEN AND SCISSORS. 
A fire occurred at Whitehall on the 24th 
ult., by which eight buildings were destroyed. 
J3|r The Tribune states that the Hudson River 
Railroad company is carrying 2,500 passengers 
daily. 
The vote in Texas on the location of the 
State House, it is said, has resulted in favor of the 
city of Austin. 
Over four thousand dollars worth'of fruit 
trees lately arrived at Boston, from France, in one 
vessel. 
Jenny Lind is expected to reach New York 
about the 10th of September. Barnum has en¬ 
gaged apartments at the Irving House. 
5^" The gold fever is raging at Hamilton, in 
Upper Canada. The Gazette says, a large schoon¬ 
er has been chartered to go around the Cape. 
A parasol has been manufactured, resemb¬ 
ling a flower in shape, bearing the name of Flor- 
iform. 
1 ^” The Panorama of the Connecticut River, 
from Hartford to Wells River in Vermont, is now 
exhibiting in Boston. 
jj;^”Rev. Dr. Wainwright, of New York, has 
just committed to press an account of his recent 
travels in Europe and the East. 
Santa Anna has left Kingston, Jamaica, 
for Carthagenia, where he intimates, he will here¬ 
after permanently reside. 
Father Mathew’s success is much doubted 
in Louisiana, inasmuch as every cotton-planter 
there must have his Gin ! 
The Legislature of Ohio, during its recent 
.session, chartered no less than fifty companies for 
the purpose of constructing plank roads. 
The canal between this city and Buffalo is 
said to be in excellent condition— the packets ma¬ 
king their trips in twenty hours. 
5;^“ The Toronto Examiner is out in favor of 
Homestead Exemption in Canada. The first move 
of the Canadians should be to abolish imprison¬ 
ment for debt. 
An excellent claret is now manufactured 
in Texas, from the Mustang grape. The spon¬ 
taneous production of this grape in Texas exceeds 
all belief. 
It is said that Sands Howes, the circus 
proprietoLS, are about to establish a line of camel 
trains from Independence, Mo., direct to San 
Francisco. 
The Rev. Dr. Calvin E. Stowe, of Lane 
Seminar}-, Ohio, has been elected Collins Profes¬ 
sor of Natural and Revealed Religion in Bowdoin 
College. 
At Heath, Mass., they have had perfect 
sleighing from Thanksgiving up to the 15th of 
April, and at that date had still no other mode of 
traveling. 
5;;^“ The young people of Massachusetts now 
may marry without waiting, as the Legislature has 
repealed the law requiring a preliminary publica¬ 
tion of the bans. 
Over one hundred canal boats have been 
built at Syracuse during the past autumn and win¬ 
ter, for the Delaware and Hudson Canal Company, 
by Rochester contractors. 
A vessel, which has arrived in the Thames 
from Hamburgh, has brought 311 packages of 
horse-radish, the growth of the Hanseatic States, 
as a portion of her cargo. 
5^” Jenny Lind has been offered thirty thou¬ 
sand pounds to sing at the Imperial Concerts at 
the Court of Russia. Her reply to the dazzling of¬ 
fer was, “ Hungary !” 
g^”A sleigh, manufactured of gutta percha, 
convertible at pleasure into a boat, is to be sent out 
with the Enfflish Arctic expedition on the first of 
May. 
Lord Elgin has announced his intention of 
distributing £100 sterling to the exhibitors of the 
best specimens of Canadian industry at the great 
Industrial Congress to be held at London in 1851. 
The Boston Advertiser is authorized to 
state, that a report which has obtained considera¬ 
ble currency in the newspapers, that Mr. Edward 
Everett is engaged in the preparation of a history 
of France, without foundation. 
g^” The St. Louis Revielle announces the ap¬ 
pearance at the Levee of a new steamer, “ The 
St. Louis,” just completed, and the largest on the 
Mississippi or its tributaries. Her lengtli is three 
hundred and seventy feet. 
g^'" The Boston Herald states that the money 
with which Dr. Webster paid Dr. Parkman, was 
a collection of small sums saved by Mrs. Webster 
— saved from money sent her by her friends at 
Fayal. 
The boiler of a locomotive engine, attach¬ 
ed to a burden train on the Baltimore and Susque¬ 
hanna Railroad, exploded in the vicinity of Cock- 
eysville, throwing the engpne 80 feet from i!io track 
and instantly killing the fireman. 
ggg” There are now about 720 miles of railway 
in l^iana, either completed or in progress. The 
whole of this railroad work will be done in 1851 
and 1852. Indianapolis is the centre of the rail¬ 
way routes. 
1 ^” The new Mayor of Pittsburgh having had. 
a drunken man before him who had been picked 
up out of the ditch, before a rum tavern, dismis¬ 
sed the prisoner, but fined the tavern keeper five 
dollars. 
During the late fine weather in England, 
Lord Ross has been able to make use of his splen¬ 
did telescope to great advantage, and has added 
three new nebulee to his former important dis¬ 
coveries. 
g^” The Augusta Constitutionalist says, that 
an inexhaustible bed of bituminous coal has 
been found in Walker county, Georria. The dis¬ 
cover}' cannot fail to have a marked influence on 
the prosperity of the State. 
g^” The Hon. W. Brown formerly Assistant 
P. M. General, is laboring assiduously in Congress 
to secure a reduction of letter postage, and the free 
circulation of newspapers in the counties where 
they are published. 
S The London Standard says, that the mu- 
1 expedition of Henry Grinnell, of New' 
York, in search of Sir John Franklin, has excited 
the highest admiration and deepest ^atitude in 
England. Sir John Ross is about fitting out an 
e.xpedition for the Arctic. 
g^’“Rev. Mr. Hastings, of Boston, has been ap¬ 
pointed by Mr. Cass, chaplain to the U. States 
Legation to Rome, aud the Goverumeut sanctions 
his preaching every Sunday at the Embassy—a 
concession wnich the English have been vainly en¬ 
deavoring to obtain for the last 60 years. 
Those Premiums offered for subscribers to the 
New-Yorker have excited but little competion, 
thus far. Ten is the highest number yet obtained 
by any competitor who has complied with the re¬ 
quisitions—and hence it is unnecessa;^ for us to 
give names, &c., as each will know his position. 
