MOOEE’S EUEAE NEW-YOEKER: AN AGEICULTUEAl AND FAMILY JOURNAL. 
. ROCHESTER, NOVEMBER 28, 1850 
) Form of the Rural New-Yorker, 
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/ TEXT. 
^ Friend Moore :—I call all friends who are 
/ bound together in one common cause, and although 
'' a stranger in one sense to many of your subscri- 
^ bers, yet most of them would venture to use the 
^ the same familiarity with you, that I have. My 
\ only apology is, to make a request to you for my- 
) self and many others in this part, namely, that the 
^ Rural, standing as it does, at the head of the list 
{ among agricultural journals, be “done up” in a 
) better shape for binding. 
< For one I should be pleased to see your journal 
^ placed beside the Horticulturist, and other kindred 
( works, now in my libraiy', but in its present shape 
I must forego that p^asure. 
( We ask no better selection of choice reading 
/ than you weekly give us, and were it not for this 
(' fact, I certainly would be the last one to urge any 
( alteration. 
^ As the matter now stand.s, I must have one copy 
( at all events, and should you deem it proper, all 
\ things considered, to change its form, I will gladly 
/ subscribe for two, and warrant you a proportionate 
< increase in this section. 
) Respectfully, J. G. Pease. 
) Pierrepont Manor, N. Y., Nov. 16, 1850. 
( CONTEXT. 
i The above embraces the greatest, indeed about 
^ the only, objection we have heard to the Rural 
'( New-Yorker. During the year several persons 
') have mentioned the matter, expressing regret that 
^ the paper was not in small quarto or octavo pages 
^ —and a few distant subscribers, perhaps ten to 
/ twenty, have, iii business letters on other subjects, 
spoken to the same purport. The communication 
'' we have given is the only one, we believe, devoted 
i exclusively to the matter. As the objection is, ap- 
^ parently, a valid one, we propose to make it the 
subject of a few remarks, in order to show the de- 
^ cided advantages of the present form of the New- 
^ Yorker to all its subscribers. 
/ In the first place, it may be proper to state that, 
^ previous to commencing this paper, we considered 
( the subject in question very carefully, and con- 
> suited many good judges. Our desire was to 
) make a model Agricultural and F'amily Paper—and 
? one of the first objects was to ascertain how we 
; could furnish a large amount of choice and useful 
; reading, at the least expense to the subscriber. tVe 
? first thought of publishing in the ordinary news- 
\ paper form—a folio of only 4 pages—but, on con- 
sultation and correspondence with several persons 
who expressed an interest in the success of the en- 
i . terprise, we concluded to adopt the medium be- 
- tween folio and octavo. In deciding the question 
^ thus, we could not of course expect to please all— 
for some were in favor of the folio, and some the 
octavo form—yet a large majority of those who 
expres.sed an opinion preferred the quarto, and 
’ such has been the choice generally of those who 
have alluded to the matter since the paper was 
commenced. 
No one but a person familiar with the publishing 
business, can properly estimate the difference in 
expense, in both time and labor, between a pajier 
in this form, and containing the reading matter it 
does, andone embodying the same amount of read¬ 
ing in octavo form. To illustrate it, however, we 
will compare the price, &c., of the New-Yorker 
and Horticulturist, (to which our correspondent 
has alluded,) with the amount of reading matter 
they contain. The former is $2 a year—the latter 
$3 ; the postage on the latter is from 4 to 5 cents 
each number, while that of the former is only 1 to 
IJ cents. Now as to the comparative amount of 
reading in each. Our printer has just made an 
estimate by measuring the reading matter (exclu¬ 
sive of advertisements) given in each number of 
the two works. He finds that a number of the 
Horticulturist (taking the Sept, issue of that 
beautiful and excellent journal as his guide,) con¬ 
tains considerable less reading matter (from sev¬ 
en to ten thousand ems, in printer’s phraseologj’) 
than one of the New-Yorker. Now, bearing in 
mind that the former is a monthly and the latter a 
weekly, it will be readily perceived that we give' 
more than four times the quantity of reading in a 
volume of the NEw-YoRKER,/or $2, than is giv¬ 
en in one of the Horticulturist,/ or .f3 ! 
We must admit, in all candor, however, that 
the cost to subscribers, is not a fair showing of the 
comparative expense of publishing the two works, 
(though there is considerable difference.) It 
proves that our veteran friend Tucker receives 
more profit, in proportion to his outlay—which is 
all right; for, albeit we have made no ado about 
publishing a very clieap paper, the figures show 
that we are, to say the least, more patriotic than 
■parsimonious in furnishing so large and good a 
work as the Rural at only $2 per annum. 
But there are other cogent reasons why We can¬ 
not and should not publish the New-Yorker 
in either small quarto or octavo pages, and furnish it 
promptly and at the same price—a few of which 
we will mention. And first: A portion of the pa¬ 
per being devoted to news and market reports, it 
must be put to press and mailed without delay, 
which is convenient in its present style ;—where¬ 
as, if in octavo, there would be much additional 
labor in “ making up” the type forms, and in dry¬ 
ing, pressing and folding the .sheets preparatory to 
mailing. 2d.—In*brder to give the same amount of 
reading, with as clear and bold type, it would be 
necessary' to publish the paper on two or more 
sheets (like the Horticulturist,) which would not 
only cost us much more for the labor, pajrer for ex¬ 
tra margin, &c., but subject the subscriber to an 
additional expense of $2 to $3 per year for post¬ 
age ! 3d.—We should probably be obliged to ] 
make/our volumes in each year—giving an index, i 
&c., to each. 4th.— It would be impossible to i 
arrange the various departments in octavo pages, 
print and complete in proper manner, and furnish 
our subscribers the paper before a portion of its 
contents would be comparatively worthless—and, 
after all, butfew more perhaps would have the pa¬ 
per bound than will in its present style. The 
change would' certainly lessen the beauty and at¬ 
tractiveness of the sheet—and perhaps, like changes 
in most papers after once fairly established, prove 
injurious to its prosperity. 
— But, we write this hastily, on the eve of going 
to pre.ss, and the printer says we must stop, or the 
article will be too late. Hence \ye have no time 
to review, condense or amend, but may allude to 
the subject again. 
Next State Fair in Rochester. 
PUBLIC MEETING. 
At a meeting of the citizens of Rochester, held 
jmrsuant to notice on Tuesday evening, 21st inst., 
for the purpose of adopting suitable measures to 
secure the location of the next Annual Fair in 
this City, His Honor the Mayor was called to the 
Chair, and D. D. T. Moore, appointed Secretary. 
The meeting was composed of a large propor¬ 
tion of the most respectable and influential gentle¬ 
men and business men of Rochester. After the 
reading of the call for the meeting by the Secre¬ 
tary’, Mr. J. P. F'ogg stated that he had received a 
communication from Col. Johnson, Sec’y of the 
State Society, and read the same for the informa¬ 
tion of the audience. 
The objects of the meeting were discussed at 
some length by Messrs. J. P. Fogg, S. Miller, J. 
Alleyn, Dr. Kelsey, C. J. Hill, Dr. Strong, W. C. 
Bloss, D. R. Barton, the Mayor, E. C. Williams, 
and others. 
On motion a committee of three—consisting of 
Messrs. W. C. Bloss, J. P. Fogg and P. Barry— 
was appointed by the Chair, to nominate ,a com¬ 
mittee of fifteen to obtain subscriptions to defray 
expense of necessary buildings, &c., for the Fair— 
ascertain prices of board at Hotels and Boarding 
Houses—and secure suitable grounds for the ex¬ 
hibition. The Com. made the following report, 
which was unanimously adopted: 
Names of gentlemen selected to constitute Com. 
of fifteen—Messrs. L. B. Langworthy, Wm. Buel, 
S. Miller, L. A. Ward, J. W. Bissell, J. P. Fogg, 
D. R. Barton, N. Blossom, Benj. Baker, John 
Crombie, Joseph Hall, Chas. J. Hill, Wm. A. 
Reynolds, Geo. Ellwanger, and Jas. Vick, Jr. 
On motion the Secretary was instructed to noti¬ 
fy the members of the Com. of Arrangements of 
their appointment, and of the time and place of 
holding their first meeting. 
On motion the meeting adjourned, to convene 
at the call of the Chairman. 
S. RICHARDSON, Ch’n. 
D. D. T. Moore, Sec’y. 
New Publications. 
Byrne’s Dictionary of Mechanics, No. 12.—New 
Y'ork ; D. Appleton & Co.—D. M. Dewey, 
Agerit, Rochester. 
• This number commences the second volume of 
the above valuable work, and treats, among other 
things, of High Pressure Engines, Horse Power, 
Hydrostatic Presses, Ice and Ice trade, and Illu¬ 
mination. 
After-Dinner Table-Talk. By Chetwood 
Evelyn, Esq. New York : G.P. Putnam. 1850. 
A neat little volume containing a portrait of 
Sydney Smith, and numerous short, but choice 
extracts of wit and sense from old and new sources 
It is just the book to occupy one’s moments of 
desultory reading. Dewey has it for sale. 
The American Journal of Insanity. Edited by 
T. Romeyn Beck, Esq., and published by the N. 
Y. State Lunatic Asylum, Utica—Oct., 1850. 
This is the the 2d No. of Vol. VII. of this Quar¬ 
terly Journal. It contains articles on the subject 
of lusanjty from several medical writers, but hav¬ 
ing merely glanced at its pages, we can only speak 
of it in this manner. It is well executed. Terms, 
$1,50 per annum. 
American Phrenological Journal. —The Nov. 
No. of this work has been received. It gives a 
portrait, and the phrenological character of Presi¬ 
dent Taylor, and other reading on the subjects to 
which it is devoted. The work is particularly val¬ 
uable to all interested in the science of which it 
treats. See Prospectus of next volume in our ad¬ 
vertising columns. 
David Coi’Perfield the Younger. By Chas. 
Dickens. New York ; W. F. Burgess. 
Dewey has this last tale of Dickins, illustrated 
and complete. 
The Farmers Guide. —No. 12, just received, 
completes the first part. 
"Weekly Meteorological Abstract. 
by l. wetherell. 
Nov. 1850. 
thermometer. 
MAX. 1 MIN. 1 MEAN. 
RAIN. 
WINDS. 
19 
41 
33 
36.33 
w. 
20 
41 
32 
36.66 
s w. 
21 
33 
31 
31.33 
N w. 
22 
32 
23 
26.66 
1 
1 NW. NE. 
23 
34 
20 
28.00 
S E. N E. 
24 
42 
31 
36.66 
W. NW. 
25 
44 
35 1 
w. 
REMARKS. 
Nov. 19th. Fair day—delightful evening, 
20lh. Cloudy and unpleasant. 
21st. Fair at sunrise—cloudy soon after—snow 
in the afternoon. 
22d. Cloudy morning—signs of snow. 
23d. Cold morning—sign of a snow-storm. 
24th. Cool—a few flakes of snow. 
25th. Cloudy—grows warmer. 
Phrenology. —We understand that Mr. L. N. 
Fowler, a celebrated and practical Phrenologist 
will favor our citizens with a course of lectures on 
his favorite science in a few days. Those inter¬ 
ested in the subject may expect something novel 
and interesting. 
Foreign Intelligence. 
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i The intelligence by^ the Niagara, aside from 
I the excitement which it exhibits in England, rel¬ 
ative to the recent acts of Pope Pius, is of no es- 
> pecial importance. It will be seen, from extracts 
given elsewhere, that the movements of the Pon- 
= lifThave excited the zeal of the Protestants in the 
* kingdom, and the English church will be stimu¬ 
lated, by the active rivalry of their Catholic neigh- 
; bors, to greater efforts to extend and strengthen 
! their own interests, and their religion. The Pre¬ 
mier’s letter to the Bishop of London evinces the 
' high degree of offence which the Pope has given 
to the adherents of the established church. Eng¬ 
land has often been the theatre where a contest 
for supremacy between the tv'O churches has been 
carried to the extreme of an embittered civil war, 
^ but it is impossible that such should be the result 
' at this time, although the elements which are ar¬ 
oused by a religious controversy of this nature are 
pervading, afford material for the sharpest polem¬ 
ical warfare, and cause hatred and animosity to 
take the place of friendly intercourse between cit¬ 
izens of the same origin and supporters of the 
same government. This is one reason why a free 
and popular government should seek by all means 
to avoid becoming the especial supporter of any 
form of religious belief. 
The French news is without much interest.— 
Gen. Changarnier, it is said has taken bold steps 
in opposition to the President’s designs, and that 
a mutual distrust and hatred is the consequence. 
While the disputes between these functionaries 
were at their height, neither of the prorogation 
committee dared to sleep in their own houses, for 
’ fear of arrest. The General has presumed to 
command that the army shall cease to utter the 
popular cries, such as “ Vive I’Empereur,” &c. 
The army *' does not deliberate,” says the Re¬ 
publican General, and is bound therefore to ab* 
stain from such demonstrations. 
The Spanish Queen recently opened the Cortes 
in person, attended by the King Consort. Her 
majesty announced that the most amicable rela¬ 
tions had been re-estalilished between Spain and 
Great Britain, and the condition of the country 
was relatively preeperous. 
The Wars anticipated in the German States 
are probably averted, by a mutual accommoda¬ 
tion between Prussia and Austria, in which, says 
an English paper, the King of Prussia has but 
added a new proof of his weakness and sacrificed 
those portions of Germany which trusted in him. 
There w'ere in the Turkish army, fome 1,600 
Hungarians, refugees from Austrian vengeance. 
It is stated that these men have all been ordered 
to Constantinople, and that the Sultan, having 
become tired of them as quasi guests, will en¬ 
deavor to send them away.—Daily Dem. 
From the New York Commercial Advertiser. 
The steamer Niagara, Capt. Stone, arrived at 
New York yesterday morning at about 10 o’clock. 
Capt. Stone left Liverpool on Saturday, the 9th 
of November. , 
The new steamer Arctic arrived at Liverpool 
at midnight on Wednesday, Nov. 6 th. It will be 
recollected that she was detained at the quaran¬ 
tine ground, by fog, until 10 o’clock on Sunday 
morning, the 27tn; consequently she made the 
passage in 10 days and 14 hours. 
A Three Decker Blown Up! —A postcript to 
a letter, dated Constantinople, Oct. 25th, received 
in London on the morning of the 8 th inst., via 
Berlin, Vienna and Ostend, says that the Admi¬ 
ral’s ship, a three-decker, had blown up in the 
Arsenal, and all on board had perished. 
The papers abound with accounts of accidents. 
At Seacombe, Cheshire, fire took place in a 
school, with a reading room over it, occasioned by 
the ignition of some naptha which the schoolmas¬ 
ter was pouring into a lamp. One boy was kill¬ 
ed; the schoolmaster and six or seven others se¬ 
verely if not fatally burned or injured. 
We cannot give to-day the letter of our London 
correspondent. He says that consols closed on 
the 8 lh at 97g; no change in the grain market; 
cotton has become unsteady at a decline of J per 
pound. 
Lord Jolin Russell on tbe Papal Ag'M 
sressiou. 
To the Right Rev. the Bishop of Durham: 
My Dear Lord—I agree with you in consider¬ 
ing the '• late aggression of the Pope upon our 
Protestantism” as •• insolent and insidious,” and 
I therefore feel as indignant as you can do upon 
the subject. 
I not only promoted, to the utmost of my pow¬ 
er, the claims of the Roman Catholics to ail civil 
rights, but I thought it right and even desirable, 
that the ecclesiastical system of the Roman Cath¬ 
olics should be the means of giving instruction to 
the numerous Irish immigrants in London and 
elsewhere, who without such help would have 
been left in heathen ignorance. 
This might have been none, however, without 
any such innovation as that which we have now 
seen. 
It is impossible to confound the recent measures 
of the Pope with the division of Scotland into dio¬ 
ceses by the Episcopal Church, or the arrange¬ 
ment of districts in England by the Wesleyan 
conference. 
There is assumption cf power in all the docu¬ 
ments which have come fro|n Rome—a preten¬ 
sion of supremacy over the realm of England,and 
a claim to sole and undivided sway, which is in¬ 
consistent with the Queen’s supremacy, with the 
rights of our bishops and clergy, with the spiritu¬ 
al independence of the nation, as asserted even 
in Roman Catholic times. 
I confess, however, that my alarm is not equa 
to my indignation. ^ 
Even if it shall appear that the ministers and 
servants of the Pope in this country have not 
transgressed the law, I feel persuaded, that we 
are strong enough to repel any outward attacks. 
The liberty of Protestantism has been enjoyed too 
long in England to allow of any successful at¬ 
tempts to impose a foreign yoke upon our minds 
and consciences. No foreign prince or potentate 
will be permitted to fasten his fetters upon a na¬ 
tion which has so long and so nobly vindicated its 
right to freedom of opinion, civil, political and re¬ 
ligious. 
Upon this subject, then, 1 will only say that the 
present state of the law shall be carefully exam¬ 
ined, and the propriety of adopting any proceed¬ 
ings with reference to the recent assumptions of 
power deliberately considered. 
There is a danger, however, which alarms me 
much more than any aggression of a foreign sov¬ 
ereign. 
Clergymen of our own Church, who have sub¬ 
scribed the Thirty-nine Articles, and acknowledg¬ 
ed in explicit terms the Queen’s supremacy, have 
been the most forward in leading their flocks, 
“step by step, to the very verge of the precipice.” 
The honor paid to saints, the claim of infallibility 
for the Church, the superstitious use of the sign 
of the cross, the muttering of the Liturgy so ts 
to disguise the language in which it is written, 
th^ recommendation of oricular confession, and 
the administration of penance and absolution—all 
these things are pointed out by clergymen of the 
Church of England as worthy of adoption, and 
are now openly reprehended by the Bishop of 
London in his charge to the clergy of his dio¬ 
cese. 
What, then, is the danger to be apprehended 
from a foreign prince of no great power, compar¬ 
ed to the danger within the gates from the un¬ 
worthy sons of the Church of England herself! 
I have little hope that the propouuders and 
framers of these innovations, will desist from 
their insidious course. But I rely with confi¬ 
dence on the people of England, and I will not 
bate a jot of heart or hope so long as the glorious 
principles and the immortal martyrs of ihe Re¬ 
formation shall bo held in great reverence by the 
great mass of a nation, which looks with contempt 
on the mummeries of superstition, and with 
scorn at the laborious endeavors which- are now 
making to confine the intellect, and enslave the 
soul. I remain, with great respect, &c.. 
Downing street, Nov. 4. J. Russell. 
We are enabled to state that the recent Papal 
aggressions in England have not only created 
great alarm in the minds of many of the aristoc¬ 
racy, but that a number of titled persons, who 
have been in the habit of attending the principal 
Puseyite churches at the West-end have deter¬ 
mined to absent themselves from these places in 
future. It has struck the parties to whom wo re¬ 
fer, that, apart from all other considerations, it 
would henceforth be disrespectful, if not disloyal 
to their Sovereign, to give the sanction of their 
presence to doctrines and ceremonies which ne¬ 
cessarily lead to the practical denial of the Queen’s 
supremacy; for no one now pretends to deny that 
the late audacious assumptions in the Pope are to 
be ascribed to the prevalence of Puseyism in the 
Anglican church. 
Among the slated hearers of the Rev. Mr 
Bennett, of St. Paul’s, Hyde Park, are two Cab¬ 
inet Ministers, and among the occasional hearers 
there was a third. It is due, however, to the lat¬ 
ter to state, that he has not attended Mr. Bennett, 
the most rampant serni-Romanist of the tractarian 
body, for some months past; and wo are enabled 
to add, that, after the events of the last few weeks, 
the other two Cabinet Ministers—one of them 
brought up a sturdy Presbyterian, who have been 
in the habit of attending the ministrations of the 
reverend gentleman, have come to the conclu¬ 
sion that it would be indecorous to be among his 
hearers in future. [London Adv. 
The Bishop of London has delivered, at St. 
Paul’s Cathedral, a long and important charge.— 
It occupies seven columns of small type in the 
Times, which published it in a third edition, and 
chiefly is directed to an elaborate review of the 
baptismal question, and against biblical criticism. 
The recent Papal bull has caused the Gunpow¬ 
der Plot to be celebrated with extraordinary mag¬ 
nificence at Exeter. *• Exeter ’Change” itself 
could not have shown more enthusiasm. There 
was a procession of 200 people, and the bonfires 
consisted of “ forty beams of wood.” The Pope 
and Cardinal Wiseman were burnt in effigy, of 
course. 
A featful explosion of firo-damp occurred on 
Thursday morning, in a coal pit, known as No. 
13, at Haydock, causing the death of ten persons, 
aud injuring a number of others. 
From California. 
The news from California has no surprising fea¬ 
tures. Things in the New State pursue their na¬ 
tural course. The character of the elections as de¬ 
tailed by our correspondent, indicates no more 
fidelity to party names, than is to be expected in so 
new and rapid a community. The news from the 
mines is not calculated to encourage individual ad¬ 
venturers, but yet the yield of gold is steady and 
abundant. The richness of the gold bearing 
quartz remains a matter of fact on the evidence of 
this arrival, notwithstanding it has been loudly de¬ 
nied by disappointed seekers. The troubles with 
the Indians are bad, but they cannot long continue. 
The situation of the overland emigrants continues 
to be described as erxtremely dreadful. Starvation 
and disease contend among them which shall de- 
.stroy the most victims. A greater number of pas¬ 
sengers are now returning from California than 
are going thither; the season of the year has some¬ 
thing to do with this, but not more we think, than 
has the dissipation of all illusions. The bulk of 
the emigration to California will hereafter be of 
persons who go there without exaggerated expec¬ 
tations, and go to stay. Such emigrants are the 
best, and under their hands, the almost infinite re¬ 
sources of the marvellous region will receive a 
steady development, and the growth of the State 
will be healthy and permanent.— N. Y. Tribune. . 
New Postal Arrangement with Mexico.— 
Advices from Mexico announce that Col. Ramsey, 
on behalf of a company in New York, has effect¬ 
ed an arrangement with the Mexican Minister of 
Finance and of the Post Office, by which he ob¬ 
tains the exclusive contract for ten years, for the 
privilege of carrying all foreign or transit mails 
through the republiq from sea to sea. The mail 
bags are not to be opened in Mexico, but are to be 
weighed and sealed. This was not conceded in 
the Tehuantepec grant or treaty; and according 
to the contract with Col. Ramsey, that gentleman 
can take the Tehuantepec, Acapulco, or any other 
route. 
Sam Patch Out-done by a Horse. —On Satur¬ 
day, a horse belonging to a Mr. Chatteson fell off 
the bank just below the Lower Falls in this city, 
about two hundred feet, to the bottom. Strange 
to saj', the animal is “alive and kicking,” appa¬ 
rently not injured, with the exception of one or 
two flesh wounds. It seems incredible almost, that 
a horse or other animal, could fall down that tre¬ 
mendous precipce without being dashed to pieces. 
— Roch. American. 
Winter Coming. —Last night was the coldest of 
the season, and ice formed to the thickness of one 
eighth of an inch. The business on the canal is 
fast closing up, and boats are starting on their last 
trip. Others which arrive are preparing for win¬ 
ter quarters here, and are being laid up.— Albany 
Atlas, 22iZ. 
A House of Notabilities. —J. Fennimore 
Cooper, Fitz Greene Ilalleck, George P. Morris, 
and a number of other authors, poets, editors and 
literary men are at present staying at the Broad¬ 
way Hotel, k^t by Mr. Bixby, the former popular 
bookseller of Lowell!— N. Y. Tribune. 
Items of News, &c. 
Silver is very scarce at Philadelphia, and 
the banks refuse to pay it out for their notes. 
The two Houses of Congress re-assemble 
on Monday of next week, Dec. 2. 
Paris is now, probably, the cleanest city in 
Europe. ^ 
On the Continent, .some gentlemen retain 
the old fashion of wearing ear rings. 
The average stature of Englishmen is five 
feet seven and a half inches. 
The Paris' Academy has determined that 
gelatine as an article of food, has no nutritive 
properties. 
- Cashmere shawls take a long time to make. 
A shawl is often in the frame more than a vear. 
One of the 'Montreal Lines of Liverpool 
traders, offers to ticket passengers to the World’s 
Fair for $75 out and back. 
Hon. Samuel Edwards, of Chester, Pa., for 
eight years a representative in Congress, died on 
Thursday last. 
It^The lady who was 40 years old at the 
taking of the census in 1840, reports herself at 37 
this year. 
The Corporate Authorities of Washington 
and Georgetown have designated the 28th of Nov. 
for Thanksgiving day. 
A man named Phillips, residing at Read- 
field, Mich., shot one of his neighbors (it is thought 
fatally) from jealousy. ® 
Col. Richard M. Johnson, died at his resi¬ 
dence on the morning of the 19th, after a severe 
illness. 
In Otisco and Tully, the snow was fully 
four or five feet deep in some places where it was 
drifted. 
The Grand Jury of Albany Co. have in¬ 
dicted Dunbar, the wretch who murdered the two 
Lester boys at Westerloo. 
Five inches snow in Detroit, on Sunday 
morning, week, and the bells jingling. Snow va¬ 
mosed before night, of course. 
Mrs. Osgood, of No. 117 Franklin-st., New 
York, was dreadfully burned by the explosion of a 
camjihene lamp, which .she was filling. 
Hon. John Richardson of Union Springs, 
Cayuga Co., a member of the present Assembly 
of this State, died at Clifton Springs on the 20Ui. 
The Propeller Resohite, tow boat, blew up 
lately in the East River, killing two men and 
wounding and scalding five others. 
12 ;^” Jenny Lind has visited the famous Gener¬ 
al Tom Thumb, and thinks him the greatest 
specimen of a “ Baby man ” she has ever seen. 
The next U. S. Senate will stand about 52 
Democrats, to 20 Whigs. There will be a major¬ 
ity in the House against the administration of forty 
or fifty. 
There are in Indiana nineteen railroads, 
either completed or in progress, the aggregate 
length of w’hich is 1205 miles. There are already 
completed, 212 miles. 
The Woolen Factory of Messrs. C. W. 
Dundas &■ Co., Rochester, was damaged by fire 
to the amount of $2,000 on Monday, l 8 th inst.— 
Fully insured. 
An exchange paper .says that Millard 
Fillmore, President of the U. S., has just taken 
a $4,000 policy of insurance upon his life in the 
Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Company. 
The Appraisers of the personal property of 
the estate of Mr. McDonough, valued his whole 
wardrobe at thirty dollars, and the whole of the 
moveable property in his house at $1400. 
Some 1500 Pilgrims were burned to death 
recently, at Hergatt, on the river Weis, in Austria, 
in consequence of the building in which they 
lodged taking ffire. 
The steam flouring mill of H. Dukam, at 
Mount Clemens, Mich., was destroyed by fire last 
Saturday, caused by friction of machinery. Loss 
$18,000. No insurance. 
51;^“ The Adirondac Company have re-com¬ 
menced operations at their works. It is hut forty- 
seven working days since they were totally destroy¬ 
ed by fire. 
51;^” A company is forming for the construction 
of a railroad from Brooklyn to Fort Hamilton. 
The proposed capital is fi.xed at $250,000, at $25 
a share. 
The population of Minnesota has increased 
from 4,000 last year to over 7,000 the present.— 
Emigrants are pouring in from Norway, Sweden, 
and North Germany. 
The Eutaw Democrat says there were over 
• 2,000 spectators at the hanging of four negro 
criminals at that place on Friday week. Two- 
thirds of them were blacks. 
51:^ During the ten months the Hudson River 
Railroad has been in operation between New York 
and Poughkeepsie, more than six hundred thousand 
passengers have passed over if. 
The canal tolls collected at Oswego for the 
week ending 21st, amounted to .$19,272 40. An 
increase of .$296 00 over same period last year. 
Jfg'” Gen. Cass passed through this city on Fri¬ 
day morning, on his way to Washington. He 
lectures on TJpesday evening next, before the 
Franklin Lyceum, at Providence, R. I. 
It is now stated that the family of Prof. 
Webster have not all sailed for Fayal. Only one 
daughter has done so, Mrs. Webster, and her two 
other daughters continuing their residence at Cam¬ 
bridge. 
12 :^” The measures for the consolidation of the 
Attica, Buffalo and Tonawanda Railroad have 
been perfected. H. Martin, has been chosen Su¬ 
perintendent. The stockholders are to meet on 
the 30th to choose a new Board of Directors. 
Peter Howland, the Sandwich Islander, 
who killed John Murry, a negro, in New York, a 
few weeks since, was tried on Tuesdaj', and ac¬ 
quitted on the ground of insanity. The'Court or¬ 
dered that he be sent to the Utica Asylum. 
12 ^“ The sentence of death against Wm. Low- 
den, who was recently convicted of murdering his 
wife, in Orleans county, has been commuted to that 
of imprisonment for life, but upon what grounds 
we do hot learn. 
| 2 ^“The Corriere Mercantil, of the 19th ult., 
announces the arrival of Mr. Stephenson, the 
English engineer, at Genoa, on his way to Egypt, 
where he is to survey the line of projected canal 
between the Mediterranean and the Red Sea. 
( 2 ^“ Oranges of excellent quality are produced 
at Mobile. The specimens are unusually sweet, 
and equal in all respects to the best Havana; and 
there is no doubt that by proper attention the or¬ 
ange might be cultivated extensively and profita¬ 
bly in this climate. 
| 2 ^r The Newfoundland Times gives facts es¬ 
tablishing the probability that the whole Island is 
rising out of the ocean with a rapidity which 
threatens at no distant period, to materially eflect, 
if not utterly destroy, many of the best liarbors 
on the coast of Newfoundland. 
